About the Authors

Guoqiang Xie

Contributed equally to this work with: Guoqiang Xie, Jing Xu, Chaoyang Ye

Affiliation Kidney Institute of CPLA, Division of Nephrology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Jing Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Guoqiang Xie, Jing Xu, Chaoyang Ye

Affiliation Kidney Institute of CPLA, Division of Nephrology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Chaoyang Ye

Contributed equally to this work with: Guoqiang Xie, Jing Xu, Chaoyang Ye

Affiliation Kidney Institute of CPLA, Division of Nephrology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Dongping Chen

Affiliation Kidney Institute of CPLA, Division of Nephrology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Chenggang Xu

Affiliation Kidney Institute of CPLA, Division of Nephrology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Li Yang

Affiliation Kidney Institute of CPLA, Division of Nephrology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Yiyi Ma

Affiliation Kidney Institute of CPLA, Division of Nephrology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Xiaohong Hu

Affiliation Kidney Institute of CPLA, Division of Nephrology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Lin Li

Affiliation Kidney Institute of CPLA, Division of Nephrology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Lijun Sun

Affiliation Kidney Institute of CPLA, Division of Nephrology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Xuezhi Zhao

Affiliation Kidney Institute of CPLA, Division of Nephrology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Zhiguo Mao

chlmei1954@126.com (CM); maozhiguo93@gmail.com (ZM)

Affiliation Kidney Institute of CPLA, Division of Nephrology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Changlin Mei

chlmei1954@126.com (CM); maozhiguo93@gmail.com (ZM)

Affiliation Kidney Institute of CPLA, Division of Nephrology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GX JX CY ZM CM. Analyzed the data: GX JX CY ZM CM DC XH LL LS XZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CX YM LY. Wrote the paper: GX JX ZM CY LY.