About the Authors

Matthias Hardtke-Wolenski

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Lilli Kraus

Affiliation Department of General-, Visceral- and Transplantation Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Christel Schmetz

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Parasitology Section, Hamburg, Germany

Britta Trautewig

Affiliation Department of General-, Visceral- and Transplantation Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Fatih Noyan

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Florian W. R. Vondran

Affiliation ReMediES, Department of General-, Visceral- and Transplantation Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Hueseyin Bektas

Affiliation ReMediES, Department of General-, Visceral- and Transplantation Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Juergen Klempnauer

Affiliation Department of General-, Visceral- and Transplantation Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Elmar Jaeckel

Contributed equally to this work with: Elmar Jaeckel, Thorsten Lieke

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Thorsten Lieke

Contributed equally to this work with: Elmar Jaeckel, Thorsten Lieke

lieke.thorsten@mh-hannover.de

Affiliation ReMediES, Department of General-, Visceral- and Transplantation Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

This work is funded by the HILF grant of the Hannover Medical School and Novartis Pharma. However, this does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MHW EJ TL. Performed the experiments: MHW LK CS BT TL. Analyzed the data: MHW EJ TL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FN FV HB JK. Wrote the manuscript: MHW FV EJ TL.