About the Authors

Frank Lehner

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Ulf Kulik

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Juergen Klempnauer

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Juergen Borlak

juergen.borlak@item.fraunhofer.de

Affiliations Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnology, Fraunhofer Institute of Toxicology and Experimental Medicine, Hannover, Germany, Center of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

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