About the Authors

Naira P. Martínez Vera

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Reinhold Schmidt

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Klaus Langer

Affiliation Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmacy, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Iavor Zlatev

Affiliation Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmacy, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Robert Wronski

Affiliation JSW-Live Sciences GmbH, Grambach, Austria

Ewald Auer

Affiliation JSW-Live Sciences GmbH, Grambach, Austria

Daniel Havas

Affiliation JSW-Live Sciences GmbH, Grambach, Austria

Manfred Windisch

Affiliation JSW-Live Sciences GmbH, Grambach, Austria

Hagen von Briesen

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology & Applied Virology, Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering, St. Ingbert, Germany

Sylvia Wagner

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology & Applied Virology, Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering, St. Ingbert, Germany

Julia Stab

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology & Applied Virology, Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering, St. Ingbert, Germany

Motti Deutsch

Affiliation Physics Department, Schottenstein Center for the Research and Technology of the Cellome, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

Claus Pietrzik

Affiliation Institute of Pathobiochemistry, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Franz Fazekas

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Stefan Ropele

stefan.ropele@medunigraz.at

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interests: Authors Robert Wronski, Ewald Auer, Daniel Havas and Manfred Windisch are employed by JSW-Live Sciences GmbH. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RS KL RW MW HB SW MD CP FF SR. Performed the experiments: NM KL IZ EA DH JS SR. Analyzed the data: NM DH SR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KL IZ SW JS. Wrote the paper: NM RS RW DH CP FF SR.