About the Authors

Klaus Kraitsy

Contributed equally to this work with: Klaus Kraitsy, Muammer Uecal

Affiliation Research Unit for Experimental Neurotraumatology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Muammer Uecal

Contributed equally to this work with: Klaus Kraitsy, Muammer Uecal

Affiliation Research Unit for Experimental Neurotraumatology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Stefan Grossauer

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

Lukas Bruckmann

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

Florentina Pfleger

Affiliation Research Unit for Experimental Neurotraumatology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Stefan Ropele

Affiliation Clinical Division of General Neurology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Franz Fazekas

Affiliation Clinical Division of General Neurology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Gerda Gruenbacher

Affiliation Research Unit for Experimental Neurotraumatology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Silke Patz

Affiliation Research Unit for Experimental Neurotraumatology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Markus Absenger

Affiliation Core Facility Microscopy, Centre for Medical Research, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Christian Porubsky

Affiliation Division of Thoracic and Hyperbaric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Freyja Smolle-Juettner

Affiliation Division of Thoracic and Hyperbaric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Irem Tezer

Affiliation Division of Thoracic and Hyperbaric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Marek Molcanyi

Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Institute of Neurophysiology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Ulrike Fasching

Affiliation Research Unit for Experimental Neurotraumatology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Ute Schaefer

ute.schaefer@medunigraz.at

Affiliation Research Unit for Experimental Neurotraumatology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: US SP FSJ. Performed the experiments: KK MU SG LB FP SR GG CP IT. Analyzed the data: UF FF MA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SG LB. Wrote the paper: US MM.