About the Authors

Xinxing Lu

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, the First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, 110001, China, Department of nephrology, the People’s Hospital of Liaoning Province, Shenyang, 110001, China

Qiuling Fan

cmufql@163.com

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, the First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, 110001, China

Li Xu

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, the First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, 110001, China

Lin Li

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, the First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, 110001, China

Yuan Yue

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, the First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, 110001, China

Yanyan Xu

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, the First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, 110001, China

Yan Su

Affiliation Department of nephrology, the People’s Hospital of Liaoning Province, Shenyang, 110001, China

Dongcheng Zhang

Affiliation Department of nephrology, the People’s Hospital of Liaoning Province, Shenyang, 110001, China

Lining Wang

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, the First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, 110001, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QF XL. Performed the experiments: XL LX LL YY. Analyzed the data: XL YX YS DZ LW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XL DZ LW. Wrote the paper: XL.