About the Authors

Susan Noell

Contributed equally to this work with: Susan Noell, Petra Fallier-Becker

susan.noell@med.uni-tuebingen.de (SN); petra.fallier-becker@med.uni-tuebingen.de (PFB)

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Petra Fallier-Becker

Contributed equally to this work with: Susan Noell, Petra Fallier-Becker

susan.noell@med.uni-tuebingen.de (SN); petra.fallier-becker@med.uni-tuebingen.de (PFB)

Affiliation Institute of Pathology and Neuropathology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Andreas F. Mack

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Anatomy and Cell Analysis, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Maike Hoffmeister

Affiliation Institute of Pathology and Neuropathology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Rudi Beschorner

Affiliation Institute of Pathology and Neuropathology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Rainer Ritz

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SN PFB RR. Performed the experiments: AM MH RB. Analyzed the data: SN PFB RB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MH RR. Wrote the paper: SN PFB.