About the Authors

Wolfgang Streicher

Affiliation Department of Urology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Manuel Luedeke

Affiliation Department of Urology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Anca Azoitei

Affiliation Department of Urology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Friedemann Zengerling

Affiliation Department of Urology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Alexander Herweg

Affiliation Department of Urology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Felicitas Genze

Affiliation Department of Urology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Mark G. Schrader

Affiliation Department of Urology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Andres J. Schrader

Affiliation Department of Urology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Marcus V. Cronauer

marcus.cronauer@uni-ulm.de

Affiliation Department of Urology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WS ML MVC. Performed the experiments: WS AA FZ AH FG. Analyzed the data: WS MVC ML AJS MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AA ML. Wrote the paper: WS AJS MVC.