About the Authors

Cornelia Schuster

Current address: Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Ulm University Hospital, Ulm, Germany

Helen Brosi

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Ulm University Hospital, Ulm, Germany

Katja Stifter

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Ulm University Hospital, Ulm, Germany

Bernhard O. Boehm

Current address: Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore, Singapore

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Ulm University Hospital, Ulm, Germany

Reinhold Schirmbeck

reinhold.schirmbeck@uni-ulm.de

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Ulm University Hospital, Ulm, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CS HB KS RS. Performed the experiments: CS HB KS. Analyzed the data: CS HB KS. Wrote the paper: RS. Contributed to discussion and reviewed/edited manuscript: BOB.