About the Authors

Nisreen Kweider

nkweider@ukaachen.de

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Berthold Huppertz

Affiliation Institute of Cell Biology, Histology and Embryology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Christoph Jan Wruck

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Rainer Beckmann

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Werner Rath

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital of the RWTH, Aachen, Germany

Thomas Pufe

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Mamed Kadyrov

Affiliations Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, MEDIAN Kliniken, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NK BH MK. Performed the experiments: NK RB MK. Analyzed the data: NK BH CJW WR TP MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NK BH CJW RB WR TP MK. Wrote the paper: NK BH MK.