Thorsten Wittwer1,2, Parwis Rahmanian3, Yeong-Hoon Choi4,5, Mohamed Zeriouh6, Samira Karavidic7, Klaus Neef8,9, Astrid Christmann10, Tanja Piatkowski11, Anke Schnapper12, Matthias Ochs13,14, Christian Mühlfeld15,16, Anja Sterner-Kock17, Maria Guschlbauer18, Florian Hofmaier19, Alexandra C Maul20, Thorsten Wahlers21,22. 1. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart Center, University of Cologne, Kerpener Strasse 61, 50924, Cologne, Germany. Th.Wittwer-MD@t-online.de. 2. Center of Molecular Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. Th.Wittwer-MD@t-online.de. 3. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart Center, University of Cologne, Kerpener Strasse 61, 50924, Cologne, Germany. parwis.rahmanian@uk-koeln.de. 4. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart Center, University of Cologne, Kerpener Strasse 61, 50924, Cologne, Germany. yh.choi@uk-koeln.de. 5. Center of Molecular Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. yh.choi@uk-koeln.de. 6. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart Center, University of Cologne, Kerpener Strasse 61, 50924, Cologne, Germany. mohamed.zeriouh@uk-koeln.de. 7. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart Center, University of Cologne, Kerpener Strasse 61, 50924, Cologne, Germany. samira.karavidic@uk-koeln.de. 8. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart Center, University of Cologne, Kerpener Strasse 61, 50924, Cologne, Germany. klaus.neef@uk-koeln.de. 9. Center of Molecular Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. klaus.neef@uk-koeln.de. 10. Institute of Functional and Applied Anatomy, Hannover Medical School, Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Hannover, Germany. christmann.astrid@mh-hannover.de. 11. Institute of Functional and Applied Anatomy, Hannover Medical School, Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Hannover, Germany. piatkowski.tanja@mh-hannover.de. 12. Institute of Functional and Applied Anatomy, Hannover Medical School, Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Hannover, Germany. schnapper.anke@mh-hannover.de. 13. Institute of Functional and Applied Anatomy, Hannover Medical School, Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Hannover, Germany. ochs.matthias@mh-hannover.de. 14. Cluster of Excellence Rebirth (From Regenerative Biology to Reconstructive Therapy), Hannover, Germany. ochs.matthias@mh-hannover.de. 15. Institute of Functional and Applied Anatomy, Hannover Medical School, Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Hannover, Germany. muehlfeld.christian@mh-hannover.de. 16. Cluster of Excellence Rebirth (From Regenerative Biology to Reconstructive Therapy), Hannover, Germany. muehlfeld.christian@mh-hannover.de. 17. Center for Experimental Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. anja.sterner-kock@uk-koeln.de. 18. Center for Experimental Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. maria.guschlbauer@uk-koeln.de. 19. Center for Experimental Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. florian.hofmaier@uk-koeln.de. 20. Center for Experimental Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. alexandra.maul@uk-koeln.de. 21. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart Center, University of Cologne, Kerpener Strasse 61, 50924, Cologne, Germany. thorsten.wahlers@uk-koeln.de. 22. Center of Molecular Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. thorsten.wahlers@uk-koeln.de.
Following publication of this manuscript [1] it was discovered that several authors were inadvertently omitted from the author list. Anja Sterner-Kock, Maria Guschbauer, Florian Hofmaier and Alexandra Maul have now been added to the correct author list above. The authors apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.