About the Authors

Jan Adamowicz

Contributed equally to this work with: Jan Adamowicz, Marta Pokrywczyńska

adamowicz.jz@gmail.com

Affiliations Chair of Urology, Department of Regenerative Medicine, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Ludwik Rydygier Medical College in Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz, Poland, Department of General, Oncologic and Pediatric Urology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz, Poland

Marta Pokrywczyńska

Contributed equally to this work with: Jan Adamowicz, Marta Pokrywczyńska

Affiliation Chair of Urology, Department of Regenerative Medicine, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Ludwik Rydygier Medical College in Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz, Poland

Jakub Tworkiewicz

Affiliations Chair of Urology, Department of Regenerative Medicine, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Ludwik Rydygier Medical College in Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz, Poland, Department of Urology, Nicolaus Copernicus Hospital Batory, Torun, Poland

Tomasz Kowalczyk

Affiliation Laboratory of Modeling in Biology and Medicine, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Shane V. van Breda

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Dominik Tyloch

Affiliations Chair of Urology, Department of Regenerative Medicine, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Ludwik Rydygier Medical College in Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz, Poland, Department of General, Oncologic and Pediatric Urology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz, Poland

Tomasz Kloskowski

Affiliation Chair of Urology, Department of Regenerative Medicine, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Ludwik Rydygier Medical College in Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz, Poland

Magda Bodnar

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pathomorphology, Faculty of Medicine, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz, Poland

Joanna Skopinska-Wisniewska

Affiliation Department of Chemistry of Biomaterials and Cosmetics, Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz, Poland

Andrzej Marszałek

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pathomorphology, Faculty of Medicine, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz, Poland

Malgorzata Frontczak-Baniewicz

Affiliation Electron Microscopy Platform, Mossakowski Medical Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw

Tomasz A. Kowalewski

Affiliation Department of Mechanics and Physics of Fluids, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, Poland

Tomasz Drewa

Affiliations Chair of Urology, Department of Regenerative Medicine, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Ludwik Rydygier Medical College in Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz, Poland, Department of General, Oncologic and Pediatric Urology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz, Poland, Department of Urology, Nicolaus Copernicus Hospital Batory, Torun, Poland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JA MP JT T. Kowalczyk TD. Performed the experiments: JA MP JT T. Kowalczyk T. Kloskowski DT JSW TAK TD. Analyzed the data: JA MP JT T. Kowalczyk T. Kloskowski MB AM JSW MFB TD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JA MP JT T. Kowalczyk T. Kloskowski MB JSW AM MFB TAK TD. Wrote the paper: JA SVB T. Kloskowski TD.