About the Authors

Elvira Perez

elvira.perez@nottingham.ac.uk

Affiliations National Biomedical Research Unit in Hearing, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Nottingham, United Kingdom, School of Clinical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Barrie A. Edmonds

Affiliations National Biomedical Research Unit in Hearing, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Nottingham, United Kingdom, School of Clinical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EP BE. Performed the experiments: EP BE. Analyzed the data: EP BE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EP BE. Wrote the paper: EP BE. Revised the manuscript: EP BE.