About the Authors

Yang Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Yang Li, Hongbao Liu, Ping Fan, Xiaohong Wang

leon4344@126.com (YL); xwujun@126.com (WX)

Affiliation Hospital of Nephrology, First Affiliated Hospital, Medical College, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Wujun Xue

leon4344@126.com (YL); xwujun@126.com (WX)

Affiliation Hospital of Nephrology, First Affiliated Hospital, Medical College, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Hongbao Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yang Li, Hongbao Liu, Ping Fan, Xiaohong Wang

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Ping Fan

Contributed equally to this work with: Yang Li, Hongbao Liu, Ping Fan, Xiaohong Wang

Affiliation Department of Rheumatism and Immunology, First Affiliated Hospital, Medical College, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Xiaohong Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yang Li, Hongbao Liu, Ping Fan, Xiaohong Wang

Affiliation Hospital of Nephrology, First Affiliated Hospital, Medical College, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Xiaoming Ding

Affiliation Hospital of Nephrology, First Affiliated Hospital, Medical College, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Xiaohui Tian

Affiliation Hospital of Nephrology, First Affiliated Hospital, Medical College, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Xinshun Feng

Affiliation Hospital of Nephrology, First Affiliated Hospital, Medical College, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Xiaoming Pan

Affiliation Hospital of Nephrology, First Affiliated Hospital, Medical College, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Jin Zheng

Affiliation Hospital of Nephrology, First Affiliated Hospital, Medical College, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Puxun Tian

Affiliation Hospital of Nephrology, First Affiliated Hospital, Medical College, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Chenguang Ding

Affiliation Hospital of Nephrology, First Affiliated Hospital, Medical College, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Xiaohu Fan

Affiliation University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YL WX. Performed the experiments: YL XW HL PF XT XSF. Analyzed the data: YL HL PF XW CD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WX XD XP JZ PT. Wrote the paper: YL XHF.