About the Authors

Vanesa Esteban

Affiliation Cellular Biology in Renal Diseases Laboratory, Fundación Jimenez Diaz, Universidad Autónoma Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Silvia Heringer-Walther

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Cardiology, Charité, Campus Benjamin Franklin (CBF), Berlin, Germany

Anja Sterner-Kock

Affiliation Institute for Veterinary Pathology, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany

Ron de Bruin

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Sandra van den Engel

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Yong Wang

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Charité, Campus Benjamin Franklin (CBF), Berlin, Germany, Centre for Biomedical Research, Hull York Medical School, University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom

Sergio Mezzano

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, School of Medicine, Universidad Austral, Valdivia, Chile

Jesus Egido

Affiliation Cellular Biology in Renal Diseases Laboratory, Fundación Jimenez Diaz, Universidad Autónoma Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Heinz-Peter Schultheiss

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Charité, Campus Benjamin Franklin (CBF), Berlin, Germany

Marta Ruiz-Ortega

Contributed equally to this work with: Marta Ruiz-Ortega, Thomas Walther

Affiliation Cellular Biology in Renal Diseases Laboratory, Fundación Jimenez Diaz, Universidad Autónoma Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Thomas Walther

Contributed equally to this work with: Marta Ruiz-Ortega, Thomas Walther

thomas.walther@hyms.ac.uk.

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Charité, Campus Benjamin Franklin (CBF), Berlin, Germany, Centre for Biomedical Research, Hull York Medical School, University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JE HPS MRO TW. Performed the experiments: VE SHW ASK RdB SvdE YW SM. Analyzed the data: VE SHW ASK RdB MRO.