About the Authors

Witigo von Schönfels

Affiliation Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany

Oliver von Kampen

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany

Eleonora Patsenker

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Pharmacology and Visceral Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Felix Stickel

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Pharmacology and Visceral Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Bodo Schniewind

Affiliation Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany

Sebastian Hinz

Affiliation Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany

Markus Ahrens

Affiliation Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany

Katharina Balschun

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany

Jan-Hendrik Egberts

Affiliation Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany

Klaus Richter

Affiliation GWT-TUD GmbH, Dresden, Germany

Andreas Landrock

Affiliation GWT-TUD GmbH, Dresden, Germany

Bence Sipos

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Olga Will

Affiliation Molecular Imaging North Competence Center, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Patrizia Huebbe

Affiliation Institute of Human Nutrition and Food Science, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel; Kiel, Germany

Stefan Schreiber

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany

Michael Nothnagel

Affiliation Institute of Medical Statistics and Informatics, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany

Christoph Röcken

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany

Gerald Rimbach

Affiliation Institute of Human Nutrition and Food Science, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel; Kiel, Germany

Thomas Becker

Affiliation Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany

Jochen Hampe

Contributed equally to this work with: Jochen Hampe, Clemens Schafmayer

CS and JH are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany

Clemens Schafmayer

Contributed equally to this work with: Jochen Hampe, Clemens Schafmayer

Clemens.Schafmayer@uk-sh.de

CS and JH are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WvS OvK EP FS B. Schniewind MA KR OW PH JH CS. Performed the experiments: WvS OvK EP FS B. Schniewind KR OW PH JH CS. Analyzed the data: WvS OvK FS KR AL B. Sipos OW MN GR JH CS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SH KB JE AL B. Sipos SS CR GR TB JH CS. Wrote the paper: WvS OvK FS KR JH CS.