About the Authors
- Jana B. Ernst
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Contributed equally to this work with: Jana B. Ernst, Armin Zittermann
Affiliation Clinic for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia, Ruhr University Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
- Tobias Becker
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Clinic for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia, Ruhr University Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
- Joachim Kuhn
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Institute for Laboratory and Transfusion Medicine, Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia, Ruhr University Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
- Jan F. Gummert
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Clinic for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia, Ruhr University Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
- Armin Zittermann
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Contributed equally to this work with: Jana B. Ernst, Armin Zittermann
* E-mail: azittermann@hdz-nrw.de
Affiliation Clinic for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia, Ruhr University Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AZ. Performed the experiments: JBE JK. Analyzed the data: JBE TB AZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JK JFG. Wrote the paper: JBE AZ.