About the Authors

Christina Grothusen

Contributed equally to this work with: Christina Grothusen, Harald Schuett

Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Harald Schuett

Contributed equally to this work with: Christina Grothusen, Harald Schuett

Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Anja Hillmer

Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Stefan Lumpe

Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Karsten Grote

Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Matthias Ballmaier

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Haematology and Oncology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Andre Bleich

Affiliation Institute for Laboratory Animal Science, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Silke Glage

Affiliation Institute for Laboratory Animal Science, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Uwe J. F. Tietge

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Center for Liver, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Maren Luchtefeld

Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Bernhard Schieffer

Schieffer.Bernhard@mh-hannover.de

Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CG BS ML KG HS AB SG. Performed the experiments: CG HS SL SG AH UT. Analyzed the data: MB CG BS UT ML KG AH SG AB SL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB AB SG UT. Wrote the paper: CG BS.