About the Authors

Anding Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Anding Liu, Haoshu Fang

Affiliations Experimental Transplantation Surgery, Department of General, Visceral and Vascular Surgery, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Jena, Germany, The Centre for Molecular Medicine, Shaoxing People's Hospital, the First Affiliated Hospital of Shaoxing University, Shaoxing, PR China, Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg and Essen, Essen, Germany

Haoshu Fang

Contributed equally to this work with: Anding Liu, Haoshu Fang

Affiliations Experimental Transplantation Surgery, Department of General, Visceral and Vascular Surgery, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Jena, Germany, Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg and Essen, Essen, Germany

Olaf Dirsch

Affiliation Institute for Pathology, University Hospital of Jena, Jena, Germany

Hao Jin

Affiliations Experimental Transplantation Surgery, Department of General, Visceral and Vascular Surgery, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Jena, Germany, Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg and Essen, Essen, Germany

Uta Dahmen

uta.dahmen@med.uni-jena.de

Affiliations Experimental Transplantation Surgery, Department of General, Visceral and Vascular Surgery, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Jena, Germany, Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg and Essen, Essen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: UD OD ADL HSF. Performed the experiments: ADL HSF HJ. Analyzed the data: ADL HSF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ADL HSF. Wrote the paper: ADL UD.