About the Authors

Hellmuth A. Meyer

Contributed equally to this work with: Hellmuth A. Meyer, Tobias Endermann

Affiliations Institute of Physiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Department of Urology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Tobias Endermann

Contributed equally to this work with: Hellmuth A. Meyer, Tobias Endermann

Affiliation Institute for Experimental Endocrinology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Carsten Stephan

Affiliations Department of Urology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Berlin Institute for Urologic Research, Berlin, Germany

Mette Stoedter

Affiliation Institute for Experimental Endocrinology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Thomas Behrends

Affiliation Institute for Experimental Endocrinology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Ingmar Wolff

Affiliation Department of Urology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Klaus Jung

Affiliations Department of Urology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Berlin Institute for Urologic Research, Berlin, Germany

Lutz Schomburg

lutz.schomburg@charite.de

Affiliation Institute for Experimental Endocrinology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HAM KJ LS. Performed the experiments: TE MS TB. Analyzed the data: HAM TE CS MS TB IW KJ LS. Wrote the paper: HAM TE CS MS TB IW KJ LS.