About the Authors

Andreas Martens

Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas Martens, Sebastian V. Rojas

Affiliations Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Sebastian V. Rojas

Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas Martens, Sebastian V. Rojas

rojas.sebastian@mh-hannover.de

Affiliations Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Hassina Baraki

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Christian Rathert

Affiliation Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Natalie Schecker

Affiliation Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Sara Rojas Hernandez

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Kristin Schwanke

Affiliation Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Robert Zweigerdt

Affiliation Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Ulrich Martin

Affiliation Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Shunsuke Saito

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Axel Haverich

Affiliations Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Ingo Kutschka

Affiliations Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM SVR HB CR NS SRH RZ UM SS AH IK KS. Performed the experiments: AM SVR CR NS IK KS. Analyzed the data: AM SVR HB CR NS SRH RZ UM SS AH IK KS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM SVR RZ UM AH IK KS. Wrote the paper: AM SVR HB CR NS SRH RZ UM SS AH IK KS.