About the Authors

Mehdi Shakibaei

mehdi.shakibaei@med.uni-muenchen.de

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy, Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, Munich, Germany

Ali Mobasheri

Affiliation Division of Veterinary Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Sutton Bonington, United Kingdom

Cora Lueders

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Laboratory for Tissue Engineering, German Heart Institute Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Franziska Busch

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy, Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, Munich, Germany

Paviz Shayan

Affiliation Investigating Institute of Molecular Biological System Transfer, Tehran, Iran

Ajay Goel

Affiliation Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Laboratory, Division of Gastroenterology, Baylor Research Institute and Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Read and approved the final manuscript: MS AM CL FB PS AJ. Conceived and designed the experiments: MS AG. Performed the experiments: FB PS CL. Analyzed the data: PS AM AG MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CL FB PS MS. Wrote the paper: AM AG MS.