aDepartment of Neurology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

bMax-Planck-Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Muenster, Germany

cCSL Behring GmbH, Marburg, Germany

dDepartment of Neurology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

eExperimental Trauma Surgery, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany

fDepartment of Trauma, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital of Giessen-Marburg, Giessen, Germany

gKreiskrankenhaus Gummersbach, Department of Neurology, Gummersbach, Germany

*Corresponding author. Address: Department of Neurology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Klinikstrasse 33, 35392 Giessen, Germany. Tel.: +49 641 98545301; fax: +49 641 9854530. E-mail address: [email protected] (M. Tschernatsch).

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