About the Authors

Helge Bruns

Contributed equally to this work with: Helge Bruns, Vladimir J. Lozanovski

helge.bruns@med.uni-heidelberg.de

Affiliation Department of General and Transplant Surgery, Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg, Germany

Vladimir J. Lozanovski

Contributed equally to this work with: Helge Bruns, Vladimir J. Lozanovski

Affiliation Department of General and Transplant Surgery, Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg, Germany

Daniel Schultze

Affiliation Department of General and Transplant Surgery, Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg, Germany

Norbert Hillebrand

Affiliation Department of General and Transplant Surgery, Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg, Germany

Ulf Hinz

Affiliation Department of General and Transplant Surgery, Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg, Germany

Markus W. Büchler

Affiliation Department of General and Transplant Surgery, Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg, Germany

Peter Schemmer

Affiliation Department of General and Transplant Surgery, Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HB UH PS. Performed the experiments: HB VL NH UH PS. Analyzed the data: HB VL DS NH UH PS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HB NH UH MWB PS. Wrote the paper: HB VL DS MWB PS.