About the Authors

Shunsuke Miyake

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Clinical Pharmaceutical Sciences, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan, Department of Pharmacy, Kumamoto University Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan

Toru Miwa

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Tazuke Kofukai Medical Research Institute Kitano Hospital, Osaka, Japan

Go Yoneda

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Center for Inflammation, Immunity and Infection, Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Ayumi Kanemaru

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pharmaceutical Sciences, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

Haruki Saito

Roles Conceptualization, Resources

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Kumamoto University Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan

Ryosei Minoda

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Kumamoto General Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan

Yorihisa Orita

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Kumamoto University Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan

Hideyuki Saito

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Clinical Pharmaceutical Sciences, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan, Department of Pharmacy, Kumamoto University Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan

Hirofumi Jono

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

hjono@kuh.kumamoto-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Clinical Pharmaceutical Sciences, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan, Department of Pharmacy, Kumamoto University Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.