About the Authors

Daniel Wicklein

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel Wicklein, Nuno Ramos Leal

d.wicklein@uke.de

Affiliations Institute of Anatomy and Experimental Morphology, University Cancer Center, University Medical-Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, Institute of Clinical Chemistry, University Medical-Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Nuno Ramos Leal

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel Wicklein, Nuno Ramos Leal

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy and Experimental Morphology, University Cancer Center, University Medical-Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Johannes Salamon

Affiliation Department of Radiology, University Medical-Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Mohammed Thamer

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy and Experimental Morphology, University Cancer Center, University Medical-Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Harald Herrmann

Affiliation Ludwig-Boltzmann Cluster Oncology, Vienna, Austria

Peter Valent

Affiliations Ludwig-Boltzmann Cluster Oncology, Vienna, Austria, Division of Hematology and Hemostaseology, Department of Internal Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Udo Schumacher

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy and Experimental Morphology, University Cancer Center, University Medical-Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Sebastian Ullrich

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy and Experimental Morphology, University Cancer Center, University Medical-Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DW NRL JS PV US SU. Performed the experiments: DW NRL JS MT HH. Analyzed the data: DW NRL JS HH SU. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PV US SU. Wrote the paper: DW NRL SU.