About the Authors

Emmanouella Tsirimonaki

Contributed equally to this work with: Emmanouella Tsirimonaki, Constantinos Fedonidis

Affiliation Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece

Constantinos Fedonidis

Contributed equally to this work with: Emmanouella Tsirimonaki, Constantinos Fedonidis

Affiliation Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece

Spiros G. Pneumaticos

Affiliations Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece, Department of Orthopedics, Athens Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Adamantios A. Tragas

Affiliation Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece

Ioannis Michalopoulos

Affiliation Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece

Dimitra Mangoura

mangoura@bioacademy.gr

Affiliation Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ET CF SGP AT IM DM. Performed the experiments: ET CF SGP AT DM. Analyzed the data: ET CF SGP AT IM DM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ET CF SGP AT IM DM. Wrote the manuscript: ET CF SGP AT IM DM.