About the Authors

Claudia Wendel

Contributed equally to this work with: Claudia Wendel, André Hemping-Bovenkerk

Affiliation Department of General and Visceral Surgery, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany

André Hemping-Bovenkerk

Contributed equally to this work with: Claudia Wendel, André Hemping-Bovenkerk

Affiliation Department of General and Visceral Surgery, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Julia Krasnyanska

Affiliation Department of General and Visceral Surgery, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Sören Torge Mees

Affiliation Department of General and Visceral Surgery, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Marina Kochetkova

Affiliation Chemokine Biology Division, School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

Sandra Stoeppeler

Affiliation Department of General and Visceral Surgery, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Jörg Haier

haier@uni-muenster.de

Affiliation Comprehensive Cancer Center Muenster, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: STM JH. Performed the experiments: CW AHB JK SS. Analyzed the data: STM JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MK. Wrote the paper: CW JH.