About the Authors

Stefanie V. Schütz

Affiliation Department of Urology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Andres J. Schrader

Affiliation Department of Urology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Friedemann Zengerling

Affiliation Department of Urology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Felicitas Genze

Affiliation Department of Urology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Marcus V. Cronauer

Contributed equally to this work with: Marcus V. Cronauer, Mark Schrader

marcus.cronauer@uni-ulm.de

Affiliation Department of Urology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Mark Schrader

Contributed equally to this work with: Marcus V. Cronauer, Mark Schrader

Affiliation Department of Urology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MVC SVS. Performed the experiments: SVS FG. Analyzed the data: SVS MVC AJS MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FG FZ. Wrote the paper: MVC SVS AJS MS.