About the Authors

Volker Andresen

# These joint first authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation LaVision Biotec GmbH, Bielefeld, Germany

Karolin Pollok

# These joint first authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations German Rheumatism Research Center, a Leibniz Institute, Berlin, Germany, Charité – University of Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Jan-Leo Rinnenthal

Affiliations German Rheumatism Research Center, a Leibniz Institute, Berlin, Germany, Charité – University of Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Laura Oehme

Affiliation German Rheumatism Research Center, a Leibniz Institute, Berlin, Germany

Robert Günther

Affiliation German Rheumatism Research Center, a Leibniz Institute, Berlin, Germany

Heinrich Spiecker

Affiliation LaVision Biotec GmbH, Bielefeld, Germany

Helena Radbruch

Affiliations German Rheumatism Research Center, a Leibniz Institute, Berlin, Germany, Charité – University of Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Jenny Gerhard

Affiliations German Rheumatism Research Center, a Leibniz Institute, Berlin, Germany, Charité – University of Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Anje Sporbert

Affiliation Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Zoltan Cseresnyes

Affiliation Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Anja E. Hauser

These joint senior authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation German Rheumatism Research Center, a Leibniz Institute, Berlin, Germany

Raluca Niesner

niesner@drfz.de

These joint senior authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations German Rheumatism Research Center, a Leibniz Institute, Berlin, Germany, Charité – University of Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

VA and Dr. HS are with LaVision Biotec GmbH, Bielefeld. 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: VA KP AEH RN. Performed the experiments: VA KP AEH RN HR JLR RG LOJG HS AS ZC. Analyzed the data: VA KP AEH RN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HR JLR. Wrote the paper: VA KP AEH RN. Provided expertise in handling acute hippocampus slices: HR. Contributed with software modules: JLR. Helped by the controlling of the synchronization electronics within the microscope: HS.