About the Authors

Hongbao Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongbao Liu, Shuibing Liu, Yang Li, Xiaohong Wang

xjsnlhb@yahoo.com.cn (HL); xjsnxwj@126.com (WX)

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Shuibing Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongbao Liu, Shuibing Liu, Yang Li, Xiaohong Wang

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Yang Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongbao Liu, Shuibing Liu, Yang Li, Xiaohong Wang

Affiliation Department of Renal Transplant, The First Affiliated Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

Xiaohong Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongbao Liu, Shuibing Liu, Yang Li, Xiaohong Wang

Affiliation Department of Renal Transplant, The First Affiliated Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

Wujun Xue

xjsnlhb@yahoo.com.cn (HL); xjsnxwj@126.com (WX)

Affiliation Department of Renal Transplant, The First Affiliated Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

Guanqun Ge

Affiliation Department of Renal Transplant, The First Affiliated Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

Xiaohui Luo

Affiliation Department of Renal Transplant, The First Affiliated Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HL WX. Performed the experiments: HL SL YL XW XL GG. Analyzed the data: HL SL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HL SL WX. Wrote the paper: HL.