About the Authors

Andrea Hartner

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea Hartner, Carlos Menendez-Castro

andrea.hartner@uk-erlangen.de

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

Carlos Menendez-Castro

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea Hartner, Carlos Menendez-Castro

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

Nada Cordasic

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, University Hospital of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

Ines Marek

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

Gudrun Volkert

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, University Hospital of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

Bernd Klanke

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, University Hospital of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

Wolfgang Rascher

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

Karl F. Hilgers

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, University Hospital of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AH CMC KFH WR. Performed the experiments: IM GV NC BK. Analyzed the data: AH IM NC BK. Wrote the paper: AH CMC KFH.