About the Authors

Heiko Rühl

Contributed equally to this work with: Heiko Rühl, Lars Schröder

heiko.ruehl@ukb.uni-bonn.de

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Lars Schröder

Contributed equally to this work with: Heiko Rühl, Lars Schröder

Affiliation Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Center for Integrated Oncology (CIO) Köln/Bonn, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Jens Müller

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Shorena Sukhitashvili

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Julia Welz

Affiliations Institute of Experimental Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Center for Integrated Oncology (CIO) Köln/Bonn, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Walther C. Kuhn

Affiliation Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Center for Integrated Oncology (CIO) Köln/Bonn, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Johannes Oldenburg

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Christian Rudlowski

Affiliation Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Center for Integrated Oncology (CIO) Köln/Bonn, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Bernd Pötzsch

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BP CR. Performed the experiments: JA JM HR LS SS JW. Analyzed the data: HR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WK JO. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: BP HR LS.