About the Authors

Karam Eldesoqi

Contributed equally to this work with: Karam Eldesoqi, Dirk Henrich

Affiliations Department of Trauma-, Hand- and Reconstructive Surgery, Hospital of the Goethe- University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, Department of Biomaterial, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt

Dirk Henrich

Contributed equally to this work with: Karam Eldesoqi, Dirk Henrich

Affiliation Department of Trauma-, Hand- and Reconstructive Surgery, Hospital of the Goethe- University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Abeer M. El-Kady

Affiliation Department of Biomaterial, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt

Mahmoud S. Arbid

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt

Bothaina M. Abd El-Hady

Affiliation Department of Biomaterial, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt

Ingo Marzi

Affiliation Department of Trauma-, Hand- and Reconstructive Surgery, Hospital of the Goethe- University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Caroline Seebach

caroline.seebach@kgu.de

Affiliation Department of Trauma-, Hand- and Reconstructive Surgery, Hospital of the Goethe- University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DH AME MSA BMA. Performed the experiments: KE DH CS. Analyzed the data: KE DH IM CS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KE AME MSA. Wrote the paper: KE DH IM CS.