About the Authors
- Stefan Pabst
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Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan Pabst, Christoph Hammerstingl, Felix Hundt
Affiliation The Department of Internal Medicine II – Cardiology/Pneumology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Christoph Hammerstingl
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Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan Pabst, Christoph Hammerstingl, Felix Hundt
Affiliation The Department of Internal Medicine II – Cardiology/Pneumology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Felix Hundt
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Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan Pabst, Christoph Hammerstingl, Felix Hundt
Affiliation The Department of Internal Medicine I - Nephrology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Thomas Gerhardt
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Affiliation Praxis für Nieren- und Hochdruckkrankheiten Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Christian Grohé
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Affiliation The Lungenklinik Berlin-Buch, Berlin, Germany
- Georg Nickenig
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Affiliation The Department of Internal Medicine II – Cardiology/Pneumology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Rainer Woitas
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Affiliation The Department of Internal Medicine I - Nephrology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Dirk Skowasch
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* E-mail: Dirk.Skowasch@ukb.uni-bonn.de
Affiliation The Department of Internal Medicine II – Cardiology/Pneumology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: SP, CH, and DS received remuneration for lecturing and grants for travel expenses from Actelion Pharmaceuticals and GlaxoSmithKline. 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: SP CG RW DS. Performed the experiments: SP FH RW DS. Analyzed the data: SP CH FH TG RW DS. Wrote the paper: SP CH FH TG CG GN RW DS.