About the Authors

Roberta Bertelli

Contributed equally to this work with: Roberta Bertelli, Armando Di Donato

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation and Laboratory on Physiopathology of Uremia, Giannina Gaslini Children Hospital, Genoa, Italy

Armando Di Donato

Contributed equally to this work with: Roberta Bertelli, Armando Di Donato

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation and Laboratory on Physiopathology of Uremia, Giannina Gaslini Children Hospital, Genoa, Italy

Michela Cioni

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation and Laboratory on Physiopathology of Uremia, Giannina Gaslini Children Hospital, Genoa, Italy

Fabio Grassi

Affiliations Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland, Department of Medical Biotechnologies and Translational Medicine, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Masami Ikehata

Affiliation Department of Medical Biotechnologies and Translational Medicine, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Alice Bonanni

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation and Laboratory on Physiopathology of Uremia, Giannina Gaslini Children Hospital, Genoa, Italy

Maria Pia Rastaldi

Affiliation Renal Research Laboratory, Fondazione Istituto di Ricerca e Cura a carattere Scientifico (IRCCS ) Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico and Fondazione D’Amico per la Ricerca sulle Malattie Renali, Milano, Italy

Gian Marco Ghiggeri

GMarcoGhiggeri@ospedale-gaslini.ge.it

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation and Laboratory on Physiopathology of Uremia, Giannina Gaslini Children Hospital, Genoa, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RB ADD GMG. Performed the experiments: RB ADD MC MI. Analyzed the data: RB ADD FG AB MPR GMG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FG MPR GMG. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: RB ADD FG GMG.