About the Authors

Simone Jörs

Contributed equally to this work with: Simone Jörs, Christian Grimm

Affiliation Departments of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery and Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Christian Grimm

Contributed equally to this work with: Simone Jörs, Christian Grimm

Affiliation Departments of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery and Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Lars Becker

Affiliation Departments of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery and Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Stefan Heller

hellers@stanford.edu

Affiliation Departments of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery and Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SJ CG SH. Performed the experiments: SJ CG LB. Analyzed the data: SJ CG LB SH. Wrote the paper: SJ CG SH.