About the Authors

Gudrun Treutlein

Affiliation Clinic of Small Animal Medicine, Center of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, LMU Munich, München, Germany

Roswitha Dorsch

Affiliation Clinic of Small Animal Medicine, Center of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, LMU Munich, München, Germany

Kerstin N. Euler

Affiliation Institute of Animal Physiology, Department of Veterinary Sciences, LMU Munich, München, Germany

Stefanie M. Hauck

Affiliation Research Unit for Protein Science, Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany

Barbara Amann

Affiliation Institute of Animal Physiology, Department of Veterinary Sciences, LMU Munich, München, Germany

Katrin Hartmann

Affiliation Clinic of Small Animal Medicine, Center of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, LMU Munich, München, Germany

Cornelia A. Deeg

deeg@tiph.vetmed.uni-muenchen.de

Affiliation Institute of Animal Physiology, Department of Veterinary Sciences, LMU Munich, München, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GT SH RD KH CD. Performed the experiments: GT KE BA SH CD. Analyzed the data: GT NE SH CD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RD KH. Wrote the paper: GT KE SH CD.