About the Authors

C. Hadler

Affiliation Institute for Technical Chemistry, University of Technology Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

P. Aliuos

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Cluster of Excellence “Hearing 4 All”, Hannover, Germany

G. Brandes

Affiliation Institute of Cell Biology, Center of Anatomy, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

A. Warnecke

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Cluster of Excellence “Hearing 4 All”, Hannover, Germany

J. Bohlmann

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

W. Dempwolf

Affiliation Institute for Technical Chemistry, University of Technology Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

H. Menzel

Affiliation Institute for Technical Chemistry, University of Technology Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

T. Lenarz

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Cluster of Excellence “Hearing 4 All”, Hannover, Germany

G. Reuter

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

K. Wissel

Wissel.Kirsten@mh-hannover.de

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CH PA GB AW WD HM TL GR KW. Performed the experiments: CH PA GB JB AW KW. Analyzed the data: CH PA GB. Wrote the paper: CH PA GB KW.