About the Authors
- Gian Paolo Fadini
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* E-mail: gianpaolofadini@hotmail.com
Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Padova Medical School, Padova, Italy
- Shoichi Maruyama
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Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
- Takenori Ozaki
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Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
- Akihiko Taguchi
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Affiliation Department of Cerebrovascular Disease, National Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan
- James Meigs
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Affiliation Harvard Medical School and General Medicine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Stefanie Dimmeler
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Affiliation Molecular Cardiology and Internal Medicine III, Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
- Andreas M. Zeiher
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Affiliation Molecular Cardiology and Internal Medicine III, Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
- Saula de Kreutzenberg
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Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Padova Medical School, Padova, Italy
- Angelo Avogaro
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Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Padova Medical School, Padova, Italy
- Georg Nickenig
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine II, Division of Cardiology, Pneumology, and Angiology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Caroline Schmidt-Lucke
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Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Pneumology, Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
- Nikos Werner
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine II, Division of Cardiology, Pneumology, and Angiology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: GPF SdK AA. Performed the experiments: SM TO AT SD AMZ GN CSL NW. Analyzed the data: GPF AT JBM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SM TO SD AMZ AA GN CSL NW. Wrote the paper: GPF SdK AA NW. Contributed to discussion: JBM.