About the Authors

Björn Maul

Contributed equally to this work with: Björn Maul, Matthias Becker

Affiliation Department for Biochemical Neurobiology, Leibnizinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, Berlin, Germany

Matthias Becker

Contributed equally to this work with: Björn Maul, Matthias Becker

Affiliation Department for Biochemical Neurobiology, Leibnizinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, Berlin, Germany

Florian Gembardt

Affiliations Department of Cardiac Pathobiology, Excellence Cluster Cardio-Pulmonary System, Giessen, Germany, Department for Nephrology – MK3, University Hospital Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Axel Becker

Affiliation Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Heinz-Peter Schultheiss

Affiliation Department Cardiology, Charité – Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany

Wolf-Eberhard Siems

Affiliation Department for Biochemical Neurobiology, Leibnizinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, Berlin, Germany

Thomas Walther

thomas.walther2011@gmail.com

Affiliations Institute for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical Faculty Mannheim – University Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany, Centre for Fetal Medicine, Department of Pediatric Surgery & Department of Obstetrics, Division of Women and Child Health, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WES TW. Performed the experiments: BM MB FG. Analyzed the data: AB HPS WES TW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AB HPS. Wrote the paper: FG WES TW.