About the Authors

Constantin Rüder

Contributed equally to this work with: Constantin Rüder, Tobias Haase

constantinrueder@hotmail.com

Affiliations Berlin Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Berlin, Germany, Department of Cardiology, Campus Virchow Klinikum, Charité Berlin, Germany

Tobias Haase

Contributed equally to this work with: Constantin Rüder, Tobias Haase

Affiliations Berlin Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Berlin, Germany, Department of Cardiology, Campus Virchow Klinikum, Charité Berlin, Germany

Annalena Krost

Affiliation Berlin Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Berlin, Germany

Nicole Langwieser

Current address: Lilly Deutschland GmbH, München, Germany

Affiliation Berlin Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Berlin, Germany

Jan Peter

Affiliation Berlin Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Berlin, Germany

Stefanie Kamann

Affiliation Berlin Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Berlin, Germany

Dietlind Zohlnhöfer

Affiliations Berlin Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Berlin, Germany, Department of Cardiology, Campus Virchow Klinikum, Charité Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CR TH AK NL DZ. Performed the experiments: CR TH AK JP NL. Analyzed the data: CR TH AK NL SK. Wrote the paper: CR TH DZ.