About the Authors

Kirsten Wissel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

wissel.kirsten@mh-hannover.de

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Cluster of Excellence ‘Hearing 4 all’, NIFE, Hannover, Germany

Gudrun Brandes

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Nils Pütz

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Biotechnology Center, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Gian Luigi Angrisani

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Materials Science, Leibniz University Hannover, Garbsen, Germany

Jan Thieleke

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Thomas Lenarz

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Cluster of Excellence ‘Hearing 4 all’, NIFE, Hannover, Germany

Martin Durisin

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.