About the Authors

Eike Gallmeier

Contributed equally to this work with: Eike Gallmeier, Dominik C. Bader

Affiliation Department of Medicine 2, University Hospital Grosshadern, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Dominik C. Bader

Contributed equally to this work with: Eike Gallmeier, Dominik C. Bader

Affiliation Department of Medicine 2, University Hospital Grosshadern, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Lydia Kriegl

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Sabina Berezowska

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Hendrik Seeliger

Current address: Department of Surgery, Charité University Medical Center, Berlin, Germany

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University Hospital Grosshadern, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Burkhard Göke

Affiliation Department of Medicine 2, University Hospital Grosshadern, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Thomas Kirchner

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Christiane Bruns

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University Hospital Grosshadern, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Enrico N. De Toni

Enrico.deToni@med.uni-muenchen.de

Affiliation Department of Medicine 2, University Hospital Grosshadern, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EG DB EDT CB BG TK. Performed the experiments: DB LK SB. Analyzed the data: EG DB HS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BG TK. Wrote the paper: EG DB EDT.