About the Authors

Anne Bernhardt

anne.bernhardt@tu-dresden.de

Affiliation Centre for Translational Bone, Joint and Soft Tissue Research, Medizinische Fakultät, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Markus Wehrl

Affiliation wfk—Cleaning Technology Institute e.V., Krefeld, Germany

Birgit Paul

Affiliation Centre for Translational Bone, Joint and Soft Tissue Research, Medizinische Fakultät, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Thomas Hochmuth

Affiliation wfk—Cleaning Technology Institute e.V., Krefeld, Germany

Matthias Schumacher

Affiliation Centre for Translational Bone, Joint and Soft Tissue Research, Medizinische Fakultät, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Kathleen Schütz

Affiliation Centre for Translational Bone, Joint and Soft Tissue Research, Medizinische Fakultät, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Michael Gelinsky

Affiliation Centre for Translational Bone, Joint and Soft Tissue Research, Medizinische Fakultät, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors are grateful to BBF sterilization service, Kernen, for free gamma sterilization, to Webeco GmbH, Selmsdorf, for low-temperature formaldehyde/steam sterilization, to Jotec GmbH for providing Matricart scaffolds and to Syntacoll for providing bovine collagen I. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AB MW TH MG. Performed the experiments: TH BP MS KS. Analyzed the data: AB TH BP MS KS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MW MG. Wrote the paper: AB BP MS KS.