About the Authors

Bárbara Pérez-Köhler

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Medical and Social Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Alcalá. Madrid, Spain, Networking Research Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), Madrid, Spain

Francisca García-Moreno

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Medical and Social Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Alcalá. Madrid, Spain, Networking Research Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), Madrid, Spain

Thierry Brune

Affiliation Covidien – Sofradim Production, Trévoux, France

Gemma Pascual

Affiliations Department of Medicine and Medical Specialties, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Alcalá. Madrid, Spain, Networking Research Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), Madrid, Spain

Juan Manuel Bellón

juanm.bellon@uah.es

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Medical and Social Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Alcalá. Madrid, Spain, Networking Research Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The commercial affiliation of TB to Covidien – Sofradim Production does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMB GP. Performed the experiments: BP FG. Analyzed the data: JMB GP BP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TB FG. Wrote the paper: JMB BP.