About the Authors

Tanjew Dittgen

Affiliation SYGNIS Bioscience, Heidelberg, Germany

Claudia Pitzer

Affiliation SYGNIS Bioscience, Heidelberg, Germany

Christian Plaas

Affiliation SYGNIS Bioscience, Heidelberg, Germany

Friederike Kirsch

Affiliation SYGNIS Bioscience, Heidelberg, Germany

Gerhard Vogt

Affiliation SYGNIS Bioscience, Heidelberg, Germany

Rico Laage

Affiliation SYGNIS Bioscience, Heidelberg, Germany

Armin Schneider

Schneider@Sygnis.de

Affiliation SYGNIS Bioscience, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: AS is an inventor on patent applications claiming the use of G-CSF for spinal cord injury treatment. All authors are employees of SYGNIS Bioscience. There are no other 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: C. Pitzer RL AS. Performed the experiments: TD C. Plaas FK. Analyzed the data: TD C. Pitzer GV AS. Wrote the paper: C. Pitzer TD RL AS.