About the Authors

Philipp Pieroh

Affiliations Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany, Institute of Anatomy, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Marco Koch

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Daniel-Christoph Wagner

Affiliations Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Leipzig, Germany, Translational Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Leipzig, Germany

Johannes Boltze

Affiliations Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Leipzig, Germany, Translational Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Leipzig, Germany, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Angela Ehrlich

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Chalid Ghadban

Affiliations Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany, Institute of Anatomy, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Constance Hobusch

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Gerd Birkenmeier

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Faramarz Dehghani

Dehghani@medizin.uni-halle.de

Affiliations Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany, Institute of Anatomy, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PP MK GB FD. Performed the experiments: PP DCW JB AE CG CH. Analyzed the data: PP DCW GB FD. Wrote the paper: PP MK GB FD.