About the Authors

Bong-Sung Kim

bkim@ukaachen.de

Affiliations Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Hand Surgery—Burn Center, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Robert Rongisch

Affiliation Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Hand Surgery—Burn Center, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Stephan Hager

Affiliation Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Hand Surgery—Burn Center, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Gerrit Grieb

Affiliation Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Hand Surgery—Burn Center, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Mahtab Nourbakhsh

Affiliation Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Hand Surgery—Burn Center, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Hans-Oliver Rennekampff

Affiliation Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Hand Surgery—Burn Center, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Richard Bucala

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Juergen Bernhagen

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Norbert Pallua

Affiliation Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Hand Surgery—Burn Center, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BSK MN HOR JB RB NP. Performed the experiments: RR BSK SH. Analyzed the data: BSK RR SH GG MN HOR RB JB NP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BSK GG HOR RB JB NP. Wrote the paper: BSK RR MN RB JB NP.