About the Authors

Dong Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Dong Sun, Lin Bu, Caixia Liu

sundong126@yahoo.com

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, P.R. China, Department of Nephrology, Kuitun Hospital of Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Kuitun, P.R. China, Department of Internal Medicine and Diagnostics, Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, P.R. China

Lin Bu

Contributed equally to this work with: Dong Sun, Lin Bu, Caixia Liu

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, P.R. China

Caixia Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Dong Sun, Lin Bu, Caixia Liu

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, P.R. China

Zhongcheng Yin

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, P.R. China

Xudong Zhou

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Kuitun Hospital of Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Kuitun, P.R. China

Xiaoju Li

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Kuitun Hospital of Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Kuitun, P.R. China

Aiguo Xiao

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Kuitun Hospital of Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Kuitun, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DS LB CXL XDZ XJL AGX. Performed the experiments: DS LB CXL ZCY XDZ XJL AGX. Analyzed the data: DS LB CXL XDZ XJL AGX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DS LB CXL XDZ XJL AGX. Wrote the paper: DS LB CXL.