Serum Axl predicts histology-based response to induction therapy and long-term renal outcome in lupus nephritis

• Ioannis Parodis ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ioannis Parodis, Huihua Ding

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ioannis.parodis@ki.se

  Affiliations Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Rheumatology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4875-5395

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• Huihua Ding ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ioannis Parodis, Huihua Ding

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Rheumatology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Agneta Zickert,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Rheumatology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Guillaume Cosson,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Rheumatology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Madiha Fathima,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Rheumatology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Caroline Grönwall,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Rheumatology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Chandra Mohan ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Iva Gunnarsson

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

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Rheumatology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

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