About the Authors
- Fabian R. Reimold
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Affiliations Renal Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of General Internal Medicine and Nephrology, Robert-Bosch Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany
- Niko Braun
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Affiliations Department of General Internal Medicine and Nephrology, Robert-Bosch Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany, Institute of Digital Medicine, Stuttgart, Germany
- Zsuzsanna K. Zsengellér
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Isaac E. Stillman
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Affiliations Renal Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- S. Ananth Karumanchi
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Affiliations Renal Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Vascular Biology Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Hakan R. Toka
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Affiliations Renal Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Nephrology and Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Joerg Latus
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Affiliations Department of General Internal Medicine and Nephrology, Robert-Bosch Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany, Institute of Digital Medicine, Stuttgart, Germany
- Peter Fritz
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Affiliation Division of Pathology, Department of Diagnostic Medicine, Robert-Bosch Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany
- Dagmar Biegger
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Affiliations Division of Pathology, Department of Diagnostic Medicine, Robert-Bosch Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany, Margarete Fischer-Bosch Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart, Germany
- Stephan Segerer
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Affiliation Division of Nephrology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- M. Dominik Alscher
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Affiliations Department of General Internal Medicine and Nephrology, Robert-Bosch Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany, Institute of Digital Medicine, Stuttgart, Germany
- Manoj K. Bhasin
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Contributed equally to this work with: Manoj K. Bhasin, Seth L. Alper
Affiliations Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology and Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Seth L. Alper
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Contributed equally to this work with: Manoj K. Bhasin, Seth L. Alper
* E-mail: salper@bidmc.harvard.edu
Affiliations Renal Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Vascular Biology Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have the following interests. This study was partly funded by Baxter International, Inc. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: FRR SLA MKB IES ZKZ NB MDA. Performed the experiments: FRR ZKZ NB DB PF. Analyzed the data: FRR SLA MKB IES ZKZ NB DB PF SAK HRT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SLA MKB IES ZKZ NB DB PF JL. Wrote the paper: FRR SLA MKB NB SS.