About the Authors

Mahesh Shumsher Rughooputh

mrughooputh@hotmail.com (MSR); zengrui@tjh.tjmu.edu.cn (RZ); yaoyingkk@126.com (YY)

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Rui Zeng

mrughooputh@hotmail.com (MSR); zengrui@tjh.tjmu.edu.cn (RZ); yaoyingkk@126.com (YY)

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Ying Yao

mrughooputh@hotmail.com (MSR); zengrui@tjh.tjmu.edu.cn (RZ); yaoyingkk@126.com (YY)

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, Department of Clinical Nutrition, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSR RZ YY. Performed the experiments: MSR RZ YY. Analyzed the data: MSR RZ YY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MSR RZ YY. Wrote the paper: MSR RZ YY.