About the Authors

Filipa Bernardino

Affiliation Centre for Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Clinic of Small Animal Medicine, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany

Kai Rentmeister

Affiliation Tierärztliche Praxis für Neurologie, Dettelbach, Germany

Martin J. Schmidt

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical Science, Small Animal Clinic, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany

Andreas Bruehschwein

Affiliation Centre for Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Clinic of Small Animal Surgery and Reproduction, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany

Kaspar Matiasek

Affiliation Centre for Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Section of Clinical and Comparative Neuropathology, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany

Lara A. Matiasek

Affiliation Centre for Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Clinic of Small Animal Medicine, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany

Alexander Lauda

Affiliation Centre for Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Clinic of Small Animal Medicine, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany

Heinz A. Schoon

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Andrea Fischer

andreafischer@lmu.de

Affiliation Centre for Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Clinic of Small Animal Medicine, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FB KR AL AF. Performed the experiments: FB KR AB MS KM AL HAS AF. Analyzed the data: FB KR AB MS KM AL HAS AF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KR HAS MS. Wrote the paper: FB KR MS AB KM LM AL AF.