About the Authors

Mark Stettner

mark.stettner@med.uni-duesseldorf.de

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, Research Group for Clinical and Experimental Neuroimmunology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Kathleen Wolffram

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, Research Group for Clinical and Experimental Neuroimmunology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Anne K. Mausberg

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, Research Group for Clinical and Experimental Neuroimmunology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Philipp Albrecht

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, Research Group for Clinical and Experimental Neuroimmunology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Angelika Derksen

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, Research Group for Clinical and Experimental Neuroimmunology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Axel Methner

Current address: Department of Neurology, Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, Research Group for Clinical and Experimental Neuroimmunology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Thomas Dehmel

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, Research Group for Clinical and Experimental Neuroimmunology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Hans-Peter Hartung

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, Research Group for Clinical and Experimental Neuroimmunology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Helmut Dietrich

Affiliation Geisenheim Research Center, Department of Wine Analysis and Beverage Technology, Geisenheim, Germany

Bernd C. Kieseier

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, Research Group for Clinical and Experimental Neuroimmunology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS BCK HPH. Performed the experiments: MS KW AKM PA TD HD AD. Analyzed the data: MS KW AKM PA TD HD AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS PA HPH BCK. Wrote the paper: MS BCK.