About the Authors
- Malte Lenders
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Contributed equally to this work with: Malte Lenders, Thomas Duning
Affiliation Internal Medicine D, Department of Nephrology, Hypertension and Rheumatology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany
- Thomas Duning
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Contributed equally to this work with: Malte Lenders, Thomas Duning
Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany
- Michael Schelleckes
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Affiliation Internal Medicine D, Department of Nephrology, Hypertension and Rheumatology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany
- Boris Schmitz
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Affiliations Internal Medicine D, Department of Nephrology, Hypertension and Rheumatology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany, Institute for Sports Medicine, Molecular Genetics and Cardiovascular Disease, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany
- Sonja Stander
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Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany
- Arndt Rolfs
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Affiliation Albrecht-Kossel-Institute for Neuroregeneration, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
- Stefan-Martin Brand
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Affiliation Institute for Sports Medicine, Molecular Genetics and Cardiovascular Disease, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany
- Eva Brand
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* E-mail: Eva.Brand@ukmuenster.de
Affiliation Internal Medicine D, Department of Nephrology, Hypertension and Rheumatology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany
Competing Interests
AR, EB and TD have received speaker fees and research support from both Shire HGT and Genzyme Corporation. This also does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: ML TD SMB EB. Performed the experiments: ML TD MS SS AR EB. Analyzed the data: ML TD BS SS SMB EB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TD SS AR SMB EB. Wrote the paper: ML TD BS SMB EB.