About the Authors

Sönke Ahlf

Contributed equally to this work with: Sönke Ahlf, Konstantin Tziridis

Affiliation Experimental Otolaryngology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

Konstantin Tziridis

Contributed equally to this work with: Sönke Ahlf, Konstantin Tziridis

konstantin.tziridis@uk-erlangen.de

Affiliation Experimental Otolaryngology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

Sabine Korn

Affiliation Experimental Otolaryngology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

Ilona Strohmeyer

Affiliation Experimental Otolaryngology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

Holger Schulze

Affiliation Experimental Otolaryngology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KT HS. Performed the experiments: SA SK IS. Analyzed the data: SA KT. Wrote the paper: KT HS.