About the Authors

Qin Lv

Contributed equally to this work with: Qin Lv, Xian-Fang Meng

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

Xian-Fang Meng

Contributed equally to this work with: Qin Lv, Xian-Fang Meng

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

Fang-Fang He

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

Shan Chen

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

Hua Su

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

Jing Xiong

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

Pan Gao

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

Xiu-Juan Tian

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

Jian-She Liu

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

Zhong-Hua Zhu

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

Kai Huang

huangkai1@mail.hust.edu.cn (KH); drzhangchun@hust.edu.cn (CZ)

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Chun Zhang

huangkai1@mail.hust.edu.cn (KH); drzhangchun@hust.edu.cn (CZ)

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Union 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: KH CZ. Performed the experiments: QL XFM. Analyzed the data: QL XFM FFH SC HS JX. Wrote the paper: QL XFM PG XJT JSL ZHZ CZ.