Increased levels of immature and activated low density granulocytes and altered degradation of neutrophil extracellular traps in granulomatosis with polyangiitis

• Spyridon Lipka,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Cellular Microbiology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany, Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum (DRFZ Berlin)–a Leibniz Institute, Autoimmunology Group, Berlin, Germany

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• Lennard Ostendorf,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision

  Affiliations Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum (DRFZ Berlin)–a Leibniz Institute, Autoimmunology Group, Berlin, Germany, Department of Nephrology and Intensive Care Medicine–Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology–Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3553-6406

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• Udo Schneider,

  Roles Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology–Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany

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• Falk Hiepe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum (DRFZ Berlin)–a Leibniz Institute, Autoimmunology Group, Berlin, Germany, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology–Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany

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• Falko Apel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Cellular Microbiology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany, Department of Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

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• Tobias Alexander

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tobias.alexander@charite.de

  Affiliations Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum (DRFZ Berlin)–a Leibniz Institute, Autoimmunology Group, Berlin, Germany, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology–Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany

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