About the Authors

Ulrike Boeer

boeer.ulrike@mh-hannover.de

Affiliations GMP- model laboratory for tissue engineering, Hannover, Germany, Division for Cardiac-, Thoracic-, Transplantation- and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Falk F. R. Buettner

Affiliation Department of Cellular Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Melanie Klingenberg

Affiliations GMP- model laboratory for tissue engineering, Hannover, Germany, Division for Cardiac-, Thoracic-, Transplantation- and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Georgios C. Antonopoulos

Affiliation Biomedical Optics Department, Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., Hannover, Germany

Heiko Meyer

Affiliations Division for Cardiac-, Thoracic-, Transplantation- and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Biomedical Optics Department, Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., Hannover, Germany

Axel Haverich

Affiliations GMP- model laboratory for tissue engineering, Hannover, Germany, Division for Cardiac-, Thoracic-, Transplantation- and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Mathias Wilhelmi

Affiliations GMP- model laboratory for tissue engineering, Hannover, Germany, Division for Cardiac-, Thoracic-, Transplantation- and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: UB FFRB HM AH MW. Performed the experiments: UB FFRB MK GCA. Analyzed the data: UB FFRB HM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: UB FFRB HM. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: UB MW FFRB HM.