About the Authors
- Matthias Hardtke-Wolenski
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Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Lilli Kraus
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Affiliation Department of General-, Visceral- and Transplantation Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Christel Schmetz
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Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Parasitology Section, Hamburg, Germany
- Britta Trautewig
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Affiliation Department of General-, Visceral- and Transplantation Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Fatih Noyan
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Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Florian W. R. Vondran
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Affiliation ReMediES, Department of General-, Visceral- and Transplantation Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Hueseyin Bektas
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Affiliation ReMediES, Department of General-, Visceral- and Transplantation Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Juergen Klempnauer
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Affiliation Department of General-, Visceral- and Transplantation Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Elmar Jaeckel
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Contributed equally to this work with: Elmar Jaeckel, Thorsten Lieke
Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Thorsten Lieke
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Contributed equally to this work with: Elmar Jaeckel, Thorsten Lieke
* E-mail: 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.