About the Authors

Kathrin Doppler

Doppler_K@ukw.de

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Luise Appeltshauser

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Heidrun H. Krämer

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Hospital Gießen, Gießen, Germany

Judy King Man Ng

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Neuroimmunology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Edgar Meinl

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Neuroimmunology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Carmen Villmann

Affiliation Institute for Clinical Neurobiology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Peter Brophy

Affiliation Centre for Neuroregeneration, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Sulayman D. Dib-Hajj

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, 06510, United States of America, Center of Neuroscience and Regeneration Research, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, West Haven, Connecticut, 06516, United States of America

Stephen G. Waxman

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, 06510, United States of America, Center of Neuroscience and Regeneration Research, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, West Haven, Connecticut, 06516, United States of America

Andreas Weishaupt

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Claudia Sommer

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Competing Interests

KD has received personal fees for educational talks for Baxter. HK was paid for consultancy for Grifols and got honoraria for speaking from Pfizer and Actelion. CS has received personal fees for educational talks for Baxter, CSL Behring, and Kedrion. SW serves as an advisor to SiteOne Pharmaceuticals and has received consulting fees from Janssen Pharmaceuticals and Chromocell Corporation. SDH has received personal fees from Ono Pharmaceuticals, Guidepoint Global and Endopharmaceuticals. CS and EM serve as academic editors for PLOS ONE. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KD CS. Performed the experiments: LA KD AW. Analyzed the data: KD LA CS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CV JN EM SD SW HK PB. Wrote the paper: KD CS.