About the Authors
- Andrea Autengruber
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Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea Autengruber, Ulrich Sydlik
Affiliation IUF Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Ulrich Sydlik
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Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea Autengruber, Ulrich Sydlik
Affiliation IUF Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Matthias Kroker
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Affiliation IUF Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Tamara Hornstein
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Affiliation IUF Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Niloofar Ale-Agha
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Affiliation IUF Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Daniel Stöckmann
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Affiliation IUF Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Andreas Bilstein
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Affiliation bitop AG, Witten, Germany
- Catrin Albrecht
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Affiliation IUF Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Adnana Paunel-Görgülü
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Affiliation Department of Traumatology and Hand Surgery, Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Christoph V. Suschek
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Affiliation Department of Traumatology and Hand Surgery, Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Jean Krutmann
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Affiliations IUF Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany, Zentrum für Molekulare Medizin der Medizinischen Fakultät der Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Klaus Unfried
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* E-mail: klaus.unfried@uni-duesseldorf.de
Affiliation IUF Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany
Competing Interests
AB is an employee of bitop AG, whose company provided funding, is the producer and provider of the compatible solutes used in this study. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AA US KU. Performed the experiments: AA US MK NA-A DS KU. Analyzed the data: AA US CA AP-G CVS KU TH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AB CA AP-G CVS. Wrote the paper: AA US JK KU.