About the Authors
- Federica Collino
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Center for Molecular Biotechnology, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
- Maria Chiara Deregibus
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Center for Molecular Biotechnology, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
- Stefania Bruno
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Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine and Center for Molecular Biotechnology, University of Torino, Torino, Italy, SiS-Ter S.p.A., Palazzo Pignano, Crema, Italy
- Luca Sterpone
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Affiliation Department of Automatic and Informatics, Politecnico, Torino, Italy
- Giulia Aghemo
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Center for Molecular Biotechnology, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
- Laura Viltono
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Center for Molecular Biotechnology, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
- Ciro Tetta
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Affiliation Fresenius Medical Care, Bad Homburg, Germany
- Giovanni Camussi
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* E-mail: giovanni.camussi@unito.it
Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Center for Molecular Biotechnology, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
Competing Interests
S.B. (Sis-Ter) and C.T. (Fresenius Medical Care) are employed by a commercial company and contributed to the study as researchers performing experiments and providing reagents/materials. G.C. and M.C.D. are named inventors in related patents (Publication numbers: WO2009057165 A1 and WO2009050742 A1). This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLos ONE policies on sharing data and materials as detailed online in PLos ONE guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: FC MCD GC. Performed the experiments: FC MCD SB GA LV CT GC. Analyzed the data: LS GC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MCD CT. Wrote the paper: FC MCD GC.