About the Authors

Leonie Tix

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Laboratory Animal Science & Experimental Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Lisa Ernst

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Laboratory Animal Science & Experimental Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Britta Bungardt

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Laboratory Animal Science & Experimental Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Steven R. Talbot

Roles Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Laboratory Animal Science, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Gero Hilken

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Central Animal Laboratory, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

René H. Tolba

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

rtolba@ukaachen.de

Affiliation Institute for Laboratory Animal Science & Experimental Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.