About the Authors

Ella A. Naumova

Affiliation Witten/Herdecke University, Faculty of Health, School of Dentistry, Witten, Germany

Tudor Sandulescu

Affiliation Witten/Herdecke University, Faculty of Health, School of Dentistry, Witten, Germany

Philipp Al Khatib

Affiliation Witten/Herdecke University, Faculty of Health, School of Dentistry, Witten, Germany

Michael Thie

Affiliation University of Duisburg-Essen, Institute of Pathology and Neuropathology, Essen, Germany

Wing-Kee Lee

Affiliation Witten/Herdecke University, Institute for Physiology & Pathophysiology, Centre for Biomedical Education and Research, Witten, Germany

Stefan Zimmer

Affiliation Witten/Herdecke University, Faculty of Health, School of Dentistry, Witten, Germany

Wolfgang H. Arnold

wolfgang.arnold@uni-wh.de

Affiliation Witten/Herdecke University, Faculty of Health, School of Dentistry, Witten, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SZ WHA. Performed the experiments: TS MT. Analyzed the data: W-KL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: W-KL. Wrote the paper: EAN WHA. Performed the protein measurements: PAK. Supervised the protein measurements: W-KL. Supervised the entire project: WHA..