About the Authors

Karen Schellong

Contributed equally to this work with: Karen Schellong, Sandra Schulz

Affiliation Clinic of Obstetrics, Division of ‘Experimental Obstetrics’, Charité – University Medicine Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany

Sandra Schulz

Contributed equally to this work with: Karen Schellong, Sandra Schulz

Affiliation Clinic of Obstetrics, Division of ‘Experimental Obstetrics’, Charité – University Medicine Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany

Thomas Harder

Affiliation Clinic of Obstetrics, Division of ‘Experimental Obstetrics’, Charité – University Medicine Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany

Andreas Plagemann

andreas.plagemann@charite.de

Affiliation Clinic of Obstetrics, Division of ‘Experimental Obstetrics’, Charité – University Medicine Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AP TH. Performed the experiments: KS SS . Analyzed the data: KS SS TH AP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KS SS TH AP. Wrote the paper: KS SS TH AP.