About the Authors

Franka Klatte-Schulz

Franka.Klatte@charite.de

Affiliations Julius Wolff Institute, Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery, Charité-Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité-Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Stephan Pauly

Affiliation Julius Wolff Institute, Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery, Charité-Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Markus Scheibel

Affiliation Julius Wolff Institute, Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery, Charité-Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Stefan Greiner

Affiliation Julius Wolff Institute, Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery, Charité-Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Christian Gerhardt

Affiliation Julius Wolff Institute, Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery, Charité-Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Jelka Hartwig

Affiliation Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité-Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Gerhard Schmidmaier

Affiliation Department Orthopädie, Unfallchirurgie und Paraplegiologie, Universitaetsklinikum Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Britt Wildemann

Affiliations Julius Wolff Institute, Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery, Charité-Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité-Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FK SP MS SG CG GS BW. Performed the experiments: FK JH. Analyzed the data: FK JH BW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SP MS SG CG GS. Wrote the paper: FK BW. Important for discussion of clinical relevance: SP MS SG CG GS.