About the Authors

Joachim Bischof

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Adrienne Müller

Affiliation Department of Experimental Neurology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Miriam Fänder

Affiliation Department of Experimental Neurology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Uwe Knippschild

Contributed equally to this work with: Uwe Knippschild, Dietmar Fischer

uwe.knippschild@uniklinik-ulm.de (UK); dietmar.fischer@uni-duesseldorf.de (DF)

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Dietmar Fischer

Contributed equally to this work with: Uwe Knippschild, Dietmar Fischer

uwe.knippschild@uniklinik-ulm.de (UK); dietmar.fischer@uni-duesseldorf.de (DF)

Affiliations Department of Experimental Neurology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany, Department of Experimental Neurology, University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: UK DF. Performed the experiments: JB AM MF. Analyzed the data: JB AM MF DF UK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: UK DF JB AM MF. Wrote the paper: JB DF UK.