About the Authors
- Mareike Hütten
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Contributed equally to this work with: Mareike Hütten, Anandhan Dhanasingh
Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Hannover School of Medicine, Hannover, Germany, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Institute of Zoology, Hannover, Germany
- Anandhan Dhanasingh
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Contributed equally to this work with: Mareike Hütten, Anandhan Dhanasingh
Affiliations MED-EL Innsbruck, Research & Development, Innsbruck, Österreich, Interactive Materials Research–DWI e.V. and Institute of Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
- Roland Hessler
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Affiliation MED-EL Innsbruck, Research & Development, Innsbruck, Österreich
- Timo Stöver
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Affiliation J.W. Goethe University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, Department of Otolaryngology, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Karl-Heinz Esser
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Affiliation University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Institute of Zoology, Hannover, Germany
- Martin Möller
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Affiliation Interactive Materials Research–DWI e.V. and Institute of Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
- Thomas Lenarz
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Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Hannover School of Medicine, Hannover, Germany
- Claude Jolly
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Affiliation MED-EL Innsbruck, Research & Development, Innsbruck, Österreich
- Jürgen Groll
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* E-mail: juergen.groll@fmz.uni-wuerzburg.de (JG); scheper.verena@mh-hannover.de (VS)
Affiliations Interactive Materials Research–DWI e.V. and Institute of Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, University of Würzburg, Department of Functional Materials in Medicine and Dentistry, Würzburg, Germany
- Verena Scheper
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* E-mail: juergen.groll@fmz.uni-wuerzburg.de (JG); scheper.verena@mh-hannover.de (VS)
Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Hannover School of Medicine, Hannover, Germany, Institute of Audioneurotechnology, Hannover School of Medicine, Hannover, Germany
Competing Interests
The data and results presented within this manuscript are in total obtained with MEDEL as a research partner having no financial interest on the outcome of the study. No products exactly comparable to the one used in this study will be released to the market. AD, RH and CJ are employed by MED-EL Corporation. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MH AD RH TS KE MM TL CJ JG VS. Performed the experiments: MH AD RH JG VS. Analyzed the data: MH AD CJ JG VS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TS KE MM TL CJ JG VS. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: MH AD RH CJ JG VS.