About the Authors
- Takao Imai
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Contributed equally to this work with: Takao Imai, Yasumitsu Takimoto
* E-mail: timai@ent.med.osaka-u.ac.jp
Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
- Yasumitsu Takimoto
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Contributed equally to this work with: Takao Imai, Yasumitsu Takimoto
Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Suita Municipal Hospital, Osaka, Japan
- Noriaki Takeda
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Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Tokushima University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokushima, Japan
- Atsuhiko Uno
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Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Osaka General Medical Center, Osaka, Japan
- Hidenori Inohara
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Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
- Shoichi Shimada
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Affiliation Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: TI NT. Performed the experiments: TI YT AU. Analyzed the data: TI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YT SS. Wrote the paper: TI YT. Study supervision: NT HI SS.