About the Authors

Koji Nishimura

Contributed equally to this work with: Koji Nishimura, Teppei Noda

Affiliation Shiga Medical Center Research Institute, Moriyama, Shiga, Japan

Teppei Noda

Contributed equally to this work with: Koji Nishimura, Teppei Noda

Current address: Hamanomachi Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan

Affiliation Biological Sciences, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Alain Dabdoub

Alain.Dabdoub@sri.utoronto.ca

Affiliations Biological Sciences, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: KN TN AD. Formal analysis: KN TN AD. Funding acquisition: KN TN AD. Investigation: KN TN. Project administration: AD. Supervision: AD. Validation: KN TN. Visualization: KN TN AD. Writing – original draft: KN TN AD. Writing – review & editing: KN TN AD.