About the Authors

Timo Weiland

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Medical University Hospital, Tuebingen, Germany

Kathrin Klein

Affiliation Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart, Germany

Martina Zimmermann

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Medical University Hospital, Tuebingen, Germany

Tobias Speicher

Affiliation Department of Biology, Institute of Cell Biology, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Sascha Venturelli

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Medical University Hospital, Tuebingen, Germany

Alexander Berger

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Medical University Hospital, Tuebingen, Germany

Heike Bantel

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Alfred Königsrainer

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral & Transplant Surgery, University Hospital, Tuebingen, Germany

Martin Schenk

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral & Transplant Surgery, University Hospital, Tuebingen, Germany

Thomas S. Weiss

Affiliation Center for Liver Cell Research, University Hospital, Regensburg, Germany

Albrecht Wendel

Affiliation Interfaculty Center for Pharmacogenomics and Drug Research (ICEPHA), University of Tuebingen, Germany

Matthias Schwab

Affiliations Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart, Germany, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical University Hospital, Tuebingen, Germany

Michael Bitzer

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Medical University Hospital, Tuebingen, Germany

Ulrich M. Lauer

ulrich.lauer@uni-tuebingen.de

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Medical University Hospital, Tuebingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TW MZ AW UML. Performed the experiments: TW KK MZ HB SV AB. Analyzed the data: TW KK SV AB HB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TSW AK M. Schenk. Wrote the paper: TW AW M. Schwab ULM. Critical Revision: AW M. Schwab AK M. Schenk MB. Data interpretation and support: TS. Study supervision and support: MB.