About the Authors

Andrej Udelnow

oberiu2@googlemail.com

Current address: St. Franziskus Hospital, Department of Surgery, Flensburg, Germany

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

Andreas Kreyes

Affiliation Institute of Organic Chemistry, Macromolecular Chemistry and Organic Materials, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Stefan Ellinger

Affiliation Institute of Organic Chemistry, Macromolecular Chemistry and Organic Materials, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Katharina Landfester

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany

Paul Walther

Affiliation Department of Electron Microscopy, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Thomas Klapperstueck

Affiliation Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

Johannes Wohlrab

Affiliation Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

Doris Henne-Bruns

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

Uwe Knippschild

Contributed equally to this work with: Uwe Knippschild, Peter Würl

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

Peter Würl

Contributed equally to this work with: Uwe Knippschild, Peter Würl

Current address: Hospital Bremen Mitte, Department of General, Visceral and Oncologic Surgery, Bremen, Germany

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AU KL P. Walther JW UK. Performed the experiments: AU UK AK SE P. Walther TK. Analyzed the data: AU UK P. Würl KL JW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AK SE JW TK UK DHB KL P. Walther. Wrote the paper: AU UK P. Würl P. Walther KL DHB. Read and revised the manuscript: DHB TK JW.