About the Authors

Sebastian Schaaf

Affiliation Department of Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology, Cardiovascular Research Center, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Aya Shibamiya

Affiliation Department of Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology, Cardiovascular Research Center, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Marco Mewe

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology for Pharmacists, Cardiovascular Research Center, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Alexandra Eder

Affiliation Department of Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology, Cardiovascular Research Center, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Andrea Stöhr

Affiliation Department of Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology, Cardiovascular Research Center, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Marc N. Hirt

Affiliation Department of Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology, Cardiovascular Research Center, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Thomas Rau

Affiliation Department of Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology, Cardiovascular Research Center, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Wolfram-Hubertus Zimmermann

Current address: Department of Pharmacology, Heart Research Center Göttingen, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Affiliation Department of Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology, Cardiovascular Research Center, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Lenard Conradi

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Cardiovascular Research Center, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Thomas Eschenhagen

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Eschenhagen, Arne Hansen

Affiliation Department of Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology, Cardiovascular Research Center, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Arne Hansen

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Eschenhagen, Arne Hansen

ar.hansen@uke.de

Affiliation Department of Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology, Cardiovascular Research Center, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS AH MM TE. Performed the experiments: SS AH A.Shibamiya MM AE MH LC A.Stöhr. Analyzed the data: SS AH TR MM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: W-HZ. Wrote the paper: AH SS TE.