About the Authors

Shuwang Ge

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Department of Nephrology, Tongji Hospital, Huazhong University, Wuhan, China

Barbara Hertel

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Nathan Susnik

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Song Rong

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Anna M. Dittrich

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Roland Schmitt

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Hermann Haller

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Sibylle von Vietinghoff

vonVietinghoff.Sibylle@mh-hannover.de

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SG SVV. Performed the experiments: SG BH NS SR. Analyzed the data: SG AMD RS SVV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AMD. Wrote the paper: SG HH SVV.