About the Authors

Claudia Lange

cllange@uke.uni-hamburg.de

Affiliation Clinic for Stem Cell Transplantation, Department of Cell and Gene Therapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Bärbel Brunswig-Spickenheier

Affiliation Clinic for Stem Cell Transplantation, Department of Cell and Gene Therapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Heike Cappallo-Obermann

Affiliation Department of Andrology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Katharina Eggert

Affiliation Clinic for Stem Cell Transplantation, Department of Cell and Gene Therapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Ursula M. Gehling

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary and Transplant Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Cornelia Rudolph

Affiliation Institute of Cell and Molecular Pathology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Brigitte Schlegelberger

Affiliation Institute of Cell and Molecular Pathology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Kerstin Cornils

Affiliation Clinic for Stem Cell Transplantation, Department of Cell and Gene Therapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Jozef Zustin

Affiliation Institute for Osteopathology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Andrej-Nikolai Spiess

Affiliation Department of Andrology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Axel R. Zander

Affiliation Clinic for Stem Cell Transplantation, Department of Cell and Gene Therapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CL UMG ARZ. Performed the experiments: CL BBS HCO KE UMG CR BS KC JZ ANS. Analyzed the data: CL BBS HCO KE ANS. Wrote the paper: CL.