About the Authors

Lena Andresen

Contributed equally to this work with: Lena Andresen, Konstantina Theodorou, Sarah Grünewald

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Konstantina Theodorou

Contributed equally to this work with: Lena Andresen, Konstantina Theodorou, Sarah Grünewald

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Sarah Grünewald

Contributed equally to this work with: Lena Andresen, Konstantina Theodorou, Sarah Grünewald

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Bozena Czech-Zechmeister

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Birte Könnecke

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Fred Lühder

Affiliation Department of Neuroimmunology, Institute for Multiple Sclerosis Research, The Hertie Foundation and MPI for Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany

George Trendelenburg

george.trendelenburg@med.uni-goettingen.de

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LA KT SG FL GT. Performed the experiments: LA KT SG BCZ FL. Analyzed the data: LA KT SG BCZ BK FL GT. Wrote the paper: LA KT SG BCZ BK FL GT.