About the Authors

Jennifer Schulze

Schulze.Jennifer.HNO@mh-hannover.de

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Cluster of Excellence “Hearing4all”, Hannover, Germany

Odett Kaiser

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Cluster of Excellence “Hearing4all”, Hannover, Germany

Gerrit Paasche

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Cluster of Excellence “Hearing4all”, Hannover, Germany

Hans Lamm

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Andreas Pich

Affiliation Core Facility Proteomics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Andrea Hoffmann

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Thomas Lenarz

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Cluster of Excellence “Hearing4all”, Hannover, Germany

Athanasia Warnecke

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Cluster of Excellence “Hearing4all”, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JS AW GP TL. Data curation: JS OK AP. Formal analysis: JS AW GP AP. Funding acquisition: AW TL GP HL. Investigation: JS OK AP. Methodology: JS AW GP AH AP. Project administration: JS AW GP OK. Resources: TL AW GP AH HL. Supervision: AW TL GP AH. Validation: JS AW GP OK AP. Visualization: JS. Writing – original draft: JS AW. Writing – review & editing: JS OK AW GP AH HL AP TL.