About the Authors

Carmen Scheibenbogen

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Carmen.Scheibenbogen@charite.de

Affiliations Institute for Medical Immunology, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Berlin, Germany

Madlen Loebel

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Medical Immunology, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Helma Freitag

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Medical Immunology, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Anne Krueger

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Sandra Bauer

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Medical Immunology, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Michaela Antelmann

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Institute for Medical Immunology, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Wolfram Doehner

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Stroke Research Berlin, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Nadja Scherbakov

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Stroke Research Berlin, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Harald Heidecke

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation CellTrend GmbH, Luckenwalde, Germany

Petra Reinke

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Berlin, Germany, Department of Nephrology, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Hans-Dieter Volk

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute for Medical Immunology, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Berlin, Germany

Patricia Grabowski

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Medical Immunology, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

This trial was supported with a grant by Fresenius Medical Care. Harald Heidecke is employed by CellTrend GmbH who also provided support in the measurement of autoantibodies. A patent application for the diagnostic use of antibodies against ß1 and ß2 adrenergic receptors in CFS/ME was filed (patent publication No WO 2016/188979 A1, applicants CellTrend (H.H.) and Charité (C.S). This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.