Nordström, Charlotta Kämpfe http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5825-9160
Danckwardt-Lillieström, Niklas
Liu, Wei
Rask-Andersen, Helge
Funding for this research was provided by:
ALF grants (no number)
Article History
Received: 21 May 2019
Accepted: 15 September 2019
First Online: 12 November 2019
Compliance with ethical statements
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: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. Dr. Wei Liu received part salary from the Medel Inc., Innsbruck, Austria.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in this study.
: The study of human discarded materials was approved by the local ethics committee (Etikprövningsnämnden Uppsala, no. 99398, 22/9 1999, cont, 2003, no. C254/4; no. C45/7 2007, Dnr. 2013/190), and informed consent was obtained. All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the local research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Sections of archival guinea pig cochlea were also analyzed; the protocol was approved by the Regional Animal Review Board of Uppsala, Sweden (permit number C98/12 and C66/16). All applicable international, national, and institutional guidelines for the care and use of animals were followed.