About the Authors

Simon Gane

Contributed equally to this work with: Simon Gane, Dimitris Georganakis, Klio Maniati

Affiliation Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Dimitris Georganakis

Contributed equally to this work with: Simon Gane, Dimitris Georganakis, Klio Maniati

Affiliation Vioryl S.A., Afidnes, Greece

Klio Maniati

Contributed equally to this work with: Simon Gane, Dimitris Georganakis, Klio Maniati

Affiliation Neurobiology Division, Biomedical Sciences Research Centre “Alexander Fleming”, Vari, Greece

Manolis Vamvakias

Affiliation Vioryl S.A., Afidnes, Greece

Nikitas Ragoussis

Affiliation Vioryl S.A., Afidnes, Greece

Efthimios M. C. Skoulakis

Affiliation Neurobiology Division, Biomedical Sciences Research Centre “Alexander Fleming”, Vari, Greece

Luca Turin

turin@fleming.gr

Affiliation Neurobiology Division, Biomedical Sciences Research Centre “Alexander Fleming”, Vari, Greece

Competing Interests

The authors declare that authors DG, MV and NR are affiliated with Vioryl, a commercial company. The authors attest that no foreseeable commercial applications of the findings described in the paper exist at the present time, no intellectual property arises from it and no funding was provided by Vioryl to the other authors. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SG NR ES LT. Performed the experiments: SG DG KM MV. Analyzed the data: SG LT. Wrote the paper: LT ES.