About the Authors

José M. Vilar

jose.vilar@ulpgc.es

Affiliation Departamento de Patología Animal, Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Arucas, Las Palmas, Spain

Mónica Rubio

Affiliation Departamento Medicina y Cirugía Animal, Cátedra García Cugat, Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, Valencia, Spain

Giuseppe Spinella

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, University of Bologna, Ozzano dell’Emilia, Bologna, Italy

Belén Cuervo

Affiliation Departamento Medicina y Cirugía Animal, Cátedra García Cugat, Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, Valencia, Spain

Joaquín Sopena

Affiliation Departamento Medicina y Cirugía Animal, Cátedra García Cugat, Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, Valencia, Spain

Ramón Cugat

Affiliation Artroscopia GC, Hospital Quirón, Barcelona, Spain

Montserrat Garcia-Balletbó

Affiliation Artroscopia GC, Hospital Quirón, Barcelona, Spain

Juan M. Dominguez

Affiliation Departamento de Medicina y Cirugía Animal, Universidad de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain

Maria Granados

Affiliation Departamento de Medicina y Cirugía Animal, Universidad de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain

Asta Tvarijonaviciute

Affiliation Departamento de Medicina y cirugía animal, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain

José J. Ceron

Affiliation Departamento de Medicina y cirugía animal, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain

José M. Carrillo

Affiliation Departamento Medicina y Cirugía Animal, Cátedra García Cugat, Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, Valencia, Spain

Competing Interests

MGB is the president and RC a member of the Fundación Garcia Cugat. The Fundación Garcia Cugat is a non-profit institution that supports biomedical research. This institution does not promote or commercialize therapies or techniques of any kind. RC and MGB are associate members of Artroscopia GC. Artroscopia GC is a private company of trauma surgeons and a contributor to the foundation. MR, BC, JS and JMC are members of the Cátedra Garcia Cugat. The Cátedra Garcia Cugat is a beneficiary of the foundation. These affiliations do not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RC MGB JMC. Performed the experiments: JMV BC JMC. Analyzed the data: JS JMD MG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AT JJC. Wrote the paper: JMV MR GS.