About the Authors

Saskia Schadow

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg, Giessen, Germany

Hans-Christian Siebert

Affiliation RI-B-NT Research Institute of Bioinformatics and Nanotechnology, Kiel, Germany

Günter Lochnit

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

Jens Kordelle

Affiliation Agaplesion Evangelical Hospital Mittelhessen, Giessen, Germany

Markus Rickert

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg, Giessen, Germany

Jürgen Steinmeyer

Juergen.Steinmeyer@ortho.med.uni-giessen.de

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg, Giessen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Involved in drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content, and approving the final version to be published: SS HCS GL JK MR. Conceived and designed the experiments: JS. Performed the experiments: SS HCS GL JK. Analyzed the data: SS HCS GL JK JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HCS GL MR. Wrote the paper: JS.