About the Authors

Silke Beermann

Current address: UMC St Radboud, Rheumatology, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Affiliation Institute of Pharmacology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Marcus Vauth

Affiliation Institute of Pharmacology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Rabea Hein

Affiliation Institute of Pharmacology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Roland Seifert

Affiliation Institute of Pharmacology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Detlef Neumann

neumann.detlef@mh-hannover.de

Affiliation Institute of Pharmacology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB RS DN. Performed the experiments: SB MV RH. Analyzed the data: SB MV RS DN. Wrote the paper: SB RS DN.