About the Authors

Cheng Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Cheng Wang, Jun Zhang

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Jun Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Cheng Wang, Jun Zhang

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Xun Liu

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Cuicui Li

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Zengchun Ye

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Hui Peng

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Zhujiang Chen

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Tanqi Lou

lou.tq@163.com

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CW TL. Performed the experiments: CW JZ XL CL ZY HP ZC. Analyzed the data: CW JZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XL CL. Wrote the paper: CW TL.