About the Authors

Felicitas Miller

Current address: Department of Cranio-Maxillo-Facial Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Alice Burghard

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Rolf Salcher

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Verena Scheper

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Hearing4all Cluster of Excellence, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Wolfgang Leibold

Affiliation Department of Immunology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Hannover, Germany

Thomas Lenarz

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Hearing4all Cluster of Excellence, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Gerrit Paasche

Paasche.Gerrit@mh-hannover.de

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Hearing4all Cluster of Excellence, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FM VS WL TL GP. Performed the experiments: FM AB RS VS. Analyzed the data: FM RS WL TL GP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TL GP. Wrote the paper: FM AB RS VS WL TL GP.