About the Authors

Marta K. Kosinska

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Laboratory for Experimental Orthopaedics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

Gerrit Eichner

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mathematical Institute, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

Gerd Schmitz

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Gerhard Liebisch

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Jürgen Steinmeyer

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

juergen.steinmeyer@ortho.med.uni-giessen.de

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Laboratory for Experimental Orthopaedics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.