About the Authors

Yasuko Kato

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasuko Kato, Naoko Kaneko, Masato Sawada

Affiliations Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, Dpartment of Neuro-otolaryngology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Naoko Kaneko

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasuko Kato, Naoko Kaneko, Masato Sawada

Affiliation Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Masato Sawada

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasuko Kato, Naoko Kaneko, Masato Sawada

Affiliation Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Keishi Ito

Affiliation Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Sousuke Arakawa

Affiliation Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Shingo Murakami

Affiliation Dpartment of Neuro-otolaryngology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Kazunobu Sawamoto

sawamoto@med.nagoya-cu.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YK NK MS SM KS. Performed the experiments: YK MS KI SA. Analyzed the data: YK NK MS KI SA SM KS. Wrote the paper: YK NK MS KS.