About the Authors

Dominik Kentrup

Contributed equally to this work with: Dominik Kentrup, Stefan Reuter

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine D, Experimental Nephrology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Stefan Reuter

Contributed equally to this work with: Dominik Kentrup, Stefan Reuter

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine D, Experimental Nephrology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Uta Schnöckel

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Alexander Grabner

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine D, Experimental Nephrology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Bayram Edemir

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine D, Experimental Nephrology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Hermann Pavenstädt

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine D, Experimental Nephrology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Otmar Schober

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Michael Schäfers

Affiliation European Institute for Molecular Imaging, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Eberhard Schlatter

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine D, Experimental Nephrology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Eckhart Büssemaker

buessema@hotmail.com

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine D, Experimental Nephrology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany, Dialysis Unit Hamm, Hamm, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DK SR AG EB. Performed the experiments: DK SR AG. Analyzed the data: DK SR AG US BE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HP OS MS ES. Wrote the paper: DK SR EB.