About the Authors

Ulf Brockmeier

Contributed equally to this work with: Ulf Brockmeier, Corinna Platzek

Affiliation Institute of Physiology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Corinna Platzek

Contributed equally to this work with: Ulf Brockmeier, Corinna Platzek

Affiliation Institute of Physiology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Kirsten Schneider

Affiliation Institute of Physiology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Pauline Patak

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

André Bernardini

Affiliation Institute of Physiology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Joachim Fandrey

Affiliation Institute of Physiology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Eric Metzen

eric.metzen@uni-due.de

Affiliation Institute of Physiology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: UB JF EM. Performed the experiments: UB CP KS PP AB. Analyzed the data: UB CP AB JF EM. Wrote the paper: UB EM. Designed the software used in analysis: AB.