About the Authors
- Filippo Martino
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Contributed equally to this work with: Filippo Martino, Johan Lorenzen
Affiliation Institute for Molecular and Translational Treatment Strategies (IMTTS), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Johan Lorenzen
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Contributed equally to this work with: Filippo Martino, Johan Lorenzen
Affiliations Institute for Molecular and Translational Treatment Strategies (IMTTS), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Julius Schmidt
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Mascha Schmidt
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Affiliation Institute for Molecular and Translational Treatment Strategies (IMTTS), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Michael Broll
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Yvonne Görzig
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Affiliation Institute for Molecular and Translational Treatment Strategies (IMTTS), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Jan T. Kielstein
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¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Thomas Thum
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* E-mail: Thum.Thomas@mh-hannover.de
¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliations Institute for Molecular and Translational Treatment Strategies (IMTTS), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Centre of Clinical and Basic Research, IRCCS San Raffaele, Rome, Italy
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following conflicts: JL, JTK and TT filed a patent regarding diagnostic applications of miRNA in acute kidney injury. Patent name and number is EP12152245.2 “Device and method for analysis of kidney failure” (submitted to European patent office). The study was supported by an unrestricted grant of Fresenius Medical Care to JTK. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: FM JL JTK TT. Performed the experiments: FM JL JS MS MB. Analyzed the data: FM JL JTK TT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YG. Wrote the paper: FM JL JTK TT.