About the Authors

Kemal Alpay

Contributed equally to this work with: Kemal Alpay, Mehdi Farshchian

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Joint Clinical Biochemistry Laboratory of Turku University Hospital, Medicity Research Laboratory, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

Mehdi Farshchian

Contributed equally to this work with: Kemal Alpay, Mehdi Farshchian

Affiliation Department of Dermatology and MediCity Research Laboratory, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland

Johanna Tuomela

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

Jouko Sandholm

Affiliation Cell Imaging Core, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

Kaappo Aittokallio

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Joint Clinical Biochemistry Laboratory of Turku University Hospital, Medicity Research Laboratory, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

Elina Siljamäki

Affiliation Department of Dermatology and MediCity Research Laboratory, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland

Marko Kallio

Affiliation VTT Health, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Turku, Finland

Veli-Matti Kähäri

Affiliation Department of Dermatology and MediCity Research Laboratory, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland

Sakari Hietanen

sakari.hietanen@utu.fi

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Joint Clinical Biochemistry Laboratory of Turku University Hospital, Medicity Research Laboratory, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SH MF K. Alpay JS JT. Performed the experiments: K. Alpay MF JT JS K. Aittokallio ES. Analyzed the data: SH JS JT MF MK K. Alpay VMK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SH VMK MK. Wrote the paper: SH MF JT JS VMK K. Alpay. Conceived and supervised the study: SH.