About the Authors

Roger Hullin

Contributed equally to this work with: Roger Hullin, Jan Matthes

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: roger.hullin@insel.ch (RH); stefan.herzig@uni-koeln.de (SH); schwara@email.uc.edu (AS)

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Swiss Heart Center Bern, University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland

Jan Matthes

Contributed equally to this work with: Roger Hullin, Jan Matthes

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Sibylle von Vietinghoff

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany, Franz Volhard Clinic, Nephrology/Hypertension Section, Medical Faculty of the Charité, Berlin, Germany

Ilona Bodi

Affiliation University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Institute of Molecular Pharmacology and Biophysics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Marta Rubio

Affiliation University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Institute of Molecular Pharmacology and Biophysics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Karen D'Souza

Affiliation University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Institute of Molecular Pharmacology and Biophysics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Ismail Friedrich Khan

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Center of Molecular Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Dennis Rottländer

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Uta C. Hoppe

Affiliation Center of Molecular Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Paul Mohacsi

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Swiss Heart Center Bern, University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland

Eva Schmitteckert

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

Ralf Gilsbach

Affiliation Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Moritz Bünemann

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

Lutz Hein

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany, Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Arnold Schwartz

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: roger.hullin@insel.ch (RH); stefan.herzig@uni-koeln.de (SH); schwara@email.uc.edu (AS)

Affiliation University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Institute of Molecular Pharmacology and Biophysics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Stefan Herzig

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: roger.hullin@insel.ch (RH); stefan.herzig@uni-koeln.de (SH); schwara@email.uc.edu (AS)

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Center of Molecular Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RH JM IB MR ES RG LH AS SH. Performed the experiments: RH JM Sv IB MR KD DR ES RG LH AS SH IK. Analyzed the data: RH JM Sv IB MR KD UH PM LH AS SH IK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RH JM IB MB LH AS SH. Wrote the paper: RH JM IB AS SH.