About the Authors

Sibel Özdaş

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

sozdas@atu.edu.tr

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Adana Alparslan Türkeş Science and Technology University, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Adana, Turkey

Bora Taştekin

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

Affiliation Department of Biophysics, Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey

Seren G. Gürgen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Histology and Embriology, Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey

Talih Özdaş

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Health Science University Adana City Hospital, Adana, Turkey

Aykut Pelit

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Biophysics, Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey

Sanem O. Erkan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Health Science University Adana City Hospital, Adana, Turkey

Birgül Tuhanioğlu

Roles Data curation, Resources, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Health Science University Adana City Hospital, Adana, Turkey

Birgül Gülnar

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Adana Alparslan Türkeş Science and Technology University, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Adana, Turkey

Orhan Görgülü

Roles Resources, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Health Science University Adana City Hospital, Adana, Turkey

Competing Interests

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