About the Authors

Eleni Stamellou

stamellou.eleni@googlemail.com

Affiliation Vth. Medical Department, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Johann Fontana

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Johannes Wedel

Affiliation Vth. Medical Department, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Emmanouil Ntasis

Affiliation Vth. Medical Department, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Carsten Sticht

Affiliation Medical Research Centre (ZMF), Medical Faculty Mannheim University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Anja Becker

Affiliation Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Mannheim, Germany

Prama Pallavi

Affiliation Vth. Medical Department, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Kerstin Wolf

Affiliation Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Mannheim, Germany

Bernhard K. Krämer

Affiliation Vth. Medical Department, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Mathias Hafner

Affiliation Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Mannheim, Germany

Willem J. van Son

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Academic Medical Centre, Groningen, the Netherlands

Benito A. Yard

Affiliation Vth. Medical Department, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ES BAY WJS. Performed the experiments: ES JF JW EN AB KW PP. Analyzed the data: ES PP EN CS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ES EN BAY BKK. Wrote the paper: ES BAY BKK MH.