About the Authors
- Anne Bernhardt
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* E-mail: anne.bernhardt@tu-dresden.de
Affiliation Centre for Translational Bone, Joint and Soft Tissue Research, Medizinische Fakultät, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Markus Wehrl
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Affiliation wfk—Cleaning Technology Institute e.V., Krefeld, Germany
- Birgit Paul
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Affiliation Centre for Translational Bone, Joint and Soft Tissue Research, Medizinische Fakultät, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Thomas Hochmuth
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Affiliation wfk—Cleaning Technology Institute e.V., Krefeld, Germany
- Matthias Schumacher
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Affiliation Centre for Translational Bone, Joint and Soft Tissue Research, Medizinische Fakultät, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Kathleen Schütz
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Affiliation Centre for Translational Bone, Joint and Soft Tissue Research, Medizinische Fakultät, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Michael Gelinsky
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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.