About the Authors

Sascha Rother

Affiliation Transplant Laboratory, Department for General-, Visceral- and Transplantation Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Joachim Hundrieser

Affiliation Transplant Laboratory, Department for General-, Visceral- and Transplantation Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Claudia Pokoyski

Affiliation Transplant Laboratory, Department for General-, Visceral- and Transplantation Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Sonja Kollrich

Affiliation Transplant Laboratory, Department for General-, Visceral- and Transplantation Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Katja Borns

Affiliation Transplant Laboratory, Department for General-, Visceral- and Transplantation Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Rainer Blasczyk

Affiliation Department for Transfusion Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Daniel Poehnert

Affiliation Transplant Laboratory, Department for General-, Visceral- and Transplantation Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Jürgen Klempnauer

Affiliation Transplant Laboratory, Department for General-, Visceral- and Transplantation Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Reinhard Schwinzer

schwinzer.reinhard@mh-hannover.de

Affiliation Transplant Laboratory, Department for General-, Visceral- and Transplantation Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SR DP JH RS. Performed the experiments: SR SK KB. Analyzed the data: SR CP RS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RB JK. Wrote the paper: SR JH CP RS.