About the Authors

Tatiana Zyryanova

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Research Laboratories, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Rick Schneider

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Research Laboratories, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Volker Adams

Affiliation Heart Center Leipzig, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Doreen Sittig

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Research Laboratories, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Christiane Kerner

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Research Laboratories, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Claudia Gebhardt

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Research Laboratories, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Henrik Ruffert

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Stefan Glasmacher

Affiliation Clinic for Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Pierre Hepp

Affiliation Clinic for Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Karla Punkt

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

Jochen Neuhaus

Affiliation Clinic of Urology, Research Laboratories, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Jörg Hamann

Affiliation Department of Experimental Immunology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Gabriela Aust

gabriela.aust@medizin.uni-leipzig.de

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Research Laboratories, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RS VA GA. Performed the experiments: TZ RS VA DS CG KP JH GA. Analyzed the data: TZ RS VA CK CG GA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HR SG PH JN. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: JH GA.