About the Authors

Yu Zhu

Affiliation Center for Regenerative Therapies, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Madalena Carido

Affiliation Center for Regenerative Therapies, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Andrea Meinhardt

Affiliation Center for Regenerative Therapies, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Thomas Kurth

Affiliation Center for Regenerative Therapies, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Mike O. Karl

Affiliation Center for Regenerative Therapies, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Marius Ader

Affiliation Center for Regenerative Therapies, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Elly M. Tanaka

elly.tanaka@crt-dresden.de

Affiliation Center for Regenerative Therapies, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Competing Interests

One of the co-authors, MOK currently serves as an editor at PLOS ONE. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

EM analysis: TK. Conceived and designed the experiments: YZ AM MA EMT. Performed the experiments: YZ MC MOK. Analyzed the data: YZ AM MA EMT. Wrote the paper: YZ AM EMT.