About the Authors

Nico Melzer

Contributed equally to this work with: Nico Melzer, Gordon Hicking

nico.melzer@ukmuenster.de

Affiliation Department of Neurology–Inflammatory Disorders of the Nervous System and Neurooncology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Gordon Hicking

Contributed equally to this work with: Nico Melzer, Gordon Hicking

Affiliation Department of Neurology–Inflammatory Disorders of the Nervous System and Neurooncology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Kerstin Göbel

Affiliation Department of Neurology–Inflammatory Disorders of the Nervous System and Neurooncology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Heinz Wiendl

Affiliation Department of Neurology–Inflammatory Disorders of the Nervous System and Neurooncology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NM HW. Performed the experiments: NM GH KG. Analyzed the data: NM GH KG HW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NM KG HW. Wrote the paper: NM KG HW.