About the Authors
- Andreas Binder
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Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas Binder, Denisa May
* E-mail: a.binder@neurologie.uni-kiel.de
Affiliation Division of Neurological Pain Research and Therapy, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany
- Denisa May
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Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas Binder, Denisa May
Affiliation Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany
- Ralf Baron
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Affiliation Division of Neurological Pain Research and Therapy, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany
- Christoph Maier
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Affiliation Department of Pain Management, BG Kliniken Bergmannsheil, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
- Thomas R. Tölle
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, Technische Universität München, Klinikum rechts der Isar, München, Germany
- Rolf-Detlef Treede
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Affiliation Center for Biomedicine and Medical Technology Mannheim, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
- Achim Berthele
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, Technische Universität München, Klinikum rechts der Isar, München, Germany
- Frank Faltraco
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Affiliation Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany
- Herta Flor
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Affiliation Institute of Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience, Central Institute for Mental Health, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
- Janne Gierthmühlen
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Affiliation Division of Neurological Pain Research and Therapy, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany
- Sierk Haenisch
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Affiliation Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany
- Volker Huge
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Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University München, München, Germany
- Walter Magerl
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Affiliation Center for Biomedicine and Medical Technology Mannheim, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
- Christian Maihöfner
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
- Helmut Richter
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Affiliation Department of Pain Management, BG Kliniken Bergmannsheil, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
- Roman Rolke
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Medical Center, Johannes-Gutenberg-University of Mainz, Mainz and Department of Palliative Care, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Andrea Scherens
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Affiliation Department of Pain Management, BG Kliniken Bergmannsheil, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
- Nurcan Üçeyler
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- Mike Ufer
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Affiliation Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany
- Gunnar Wasner
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Affiliation Division of Neurological Pain Research and Therapy, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany
- Jihong Zhu
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Affiliation Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany
- Ingolf Cascorbi
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Affiliation Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Competing Interests
A. Binder received support for travel from the BMBF, honoraria for lectures from Grünenthal, Allergan and Pfizer, payment for development of educational presentations from Pfizer and travel/accommodation expenses from Pfizer, Allergan and Grünenthal and his institution received financial support from the BMBF. RB received support for travel from the BMBF, has consultancies with and received honoraria and travel/accommodation expenses from Pfizer, Genzyme, Grünenthal, Mundipharma, Allergan, Sanofi Pasteur, Medtronic, Eisai, UCB, Lilly, Astellas, received grants from Pfizer, Grünenthal, Genzyme, received payment for development of educational presentations from Pfizer, Medtronic and his institution received financial support from the BMBF. TT is board member at Pfizer, Lilly, Boehringer Grünenthal, and has consultancies with and received travel /accommodation expenses from Pfizer, Lilly, Boehringer, Grünenthal, Mundipharma, UCB/Schwarz. A. Berthele received honoraria and travel/accommodations expenses from Pfizer and his institution a grant from the BMBF. JG received support for travel from the BMBF and her institution received financial support from the BMBF. VH's institution received financial support from the BMBF. CMh received honoraria from Pfizer and travel/accommodation expenses from Allergan. RR is a board member at Astellas Pharma and received honoraria for lectures from Lilly and Pfizer. GW received honoraria and travel/accommodation expenses from Grünenthal, Medtronic, Pfizer, Mundipharma, his institution received financial support from the BMBF and Pfizer Pharma, and he received financial support for research from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC), the EFIC-Grünenthal-Grant (EGG), the Ministry of Science, Commerce and Transportation of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany and the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung. IC received honoraria and travel/accommodation expenses from MSD, Bayer-Schering and Sanofi Aventis for lectures. DM, RDT, FF, HF, SH, CM, AS, MU, NÜ, JZ, WM, HR have disclosed no competing interests. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: A. Binder RB C. Maier TT RDT A. Berthele SH WM MU IC. Performed the experiments: A. Binder DM C. Maier HF JG VH C. Maihöfner RR AS NÜ MU JZ. Analyzed the data: A. Binder DM RB C. Maier TT RDT A. Berthele FF JG SH WM C. Maihöfner HR GW JZ IC. Wrote the manuscript: A. Binder DM RB FF IC. Involved in revising the paper: C. Maier TT RDT A. Berthele HF JG SH VH WM C. Maihöfner HR RR AS NÜ MU GW JZ.