About the Authors
- Jasmin Prüfer
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Contributed equally to this work with: Jasmin Prüfer, Mirjam Schuchardt
Affiliations Charité – Universitaetsmedizin Berlin; Charité Centrum 13, Department of Nephrology Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Fachbereich Biochemie, Chemie, Berlin, Germany
- Mirjam Schuchardt
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Contributed equally to this work with: Jasmin Prüfer, Mirjam Schuchardt
Affiliation Charité – Universitaetsmedizin Berlin; Charité Centrum 13, Department of Nephrology Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
- Markus Tölle
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Affiliation Charité – Universitaetsmedizin Berlin; Charité Centrum 13, Department of Nephrology Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
- Nicole Prüfer
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Affiliations Charité – Universitaetsmedizin Berlin; Charité Centrum 13, Department of Nephrology Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany, Universitaet Potsdam, Department of Nutrition Science, Potsdam, Germany
- Matthias Höhne
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Affiliation Novartis Germany GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany
- Walter Zidek
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Affiliation Charité – Universitaetsmedizin Berlin; Charité Centrum 13, Department of Nephrology Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
- Markus van der Giet
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* E-mail: Markus.vanderGiet@charite.de
Affiliation Charité – Universitaetsmedizin Berlin; Charité Centrum 13, Department of Nephrology Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
Competing Interests
M Höhne is a staff member of Novartis Pharma AG in Germany. M van der Giet and M Tölle have received research support from Novartis. M van der Giet acts as consultant for Novartis, Roche and RoxMedical. The other authors have no conflicts to report. This does not alter their adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JP MS MT MH WZ MvdG. Performed the experiments: JP MS NP MH. Analyzed the data: JP MS MT MvdG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS WZ MvdG. Wrote the paper: JP MS MT WZ MvdG.