About the Authors

Carolina Lavoz

Affiliation Cellular Biology in Renal Diseases Laboratory. Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, Spain

Raquel Rodrigues-Diez

Affiliation Cellular Biology in Renal Diseases Laboratory. Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, Spain

Alberto Benito-Martin

Affiliation Dialysis Unit, IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz-Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, Spain

Sandra Rayego-Mateos

Affiliation Cellular Biology in Renal Diseases Laboratory. Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, Spain

Raúl R. Rodrigues-Diez

Affiliation Cellular Biology in Renal Diseases Laboratory. Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, Spain

Matilde Alique

Affiliation Cellular Biology in Renal Diseases Laboratory. Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, Spain

Alberto Ortiz

Affiliation Dialysis Unit, IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz-Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, Spain

Sergio Mezzano

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, School of Medicine, Universidad Austral, Valdivia, Chile

Jesús Egido

Affiliation Nephrology and Hypertension, IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz-Universidad Autónoma Madrid, Spain

Marta Ruiz-Ortega

mruizo@fjd.es

Affiliation Cellular Biology in Renal Diseases Laboratory. Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CL RRD AO MRO. Performed the experiments: CL RRD ABM SRM RRRD MA. Analyzed the data: CL RRD ABM MA MRO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AO JE SM MRO. Wrote the paper: CL JE SM MRO.