About the Authors
- Jianzhong Lu
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Hough Ear Institute, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
- Matthew B. West
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Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Hough Ear Institute, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
- Xiaoping Du
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft
Affiliation Hough Ear Institute, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
- Qunfeng Cai
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Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology
Affiliation Hough Ear Institute, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
- Donald L. Ewert
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision
Affiliation Hough Ear Institute, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
- Weihua Cheng
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Roles Formal analysis
Affiliation Hough Ear Institute, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
- Don Nakmali
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Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology
Affiliation Hough Ear Institute, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
- Wei Li
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Roles Data curation, Investigation
Affiliation Hough Ear Institute, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
- Xiangping Huang
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation
Affiliation Hough Ear Institute, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
- Richard D. Kopke
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: rkopke@houghear.org
Affiliations Hough Ear Institute, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America, Departments of Physiology and Otolaryngology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal’s policy, and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests to declare: RDK is a minor stockholder in Otologic Pharmaceutics Inc. The authors would like to declare the following patents/patent applications associated with this research: Patent families 10,555,915; 9,289,404; 10,111,843. The authors also declare the following product in development associated with this research: an oral combination drug (NAC plus HPN-07) being developed for prevention and/or treatment of acute sensorineural hearing loss. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.