About the Authors

Szu-Chun Hung

Contributed equally to this work with: Szu-Chun Hung, Yao-Ping Lin

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Taipei Branch, Taipei, Taiwan

Yao-Ping Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Szu-Chun Hung, Yao-Ping Lin

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, and Immunology Research Center, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Hsin-Lei Huang

Affiliation Department and Institute of Physiology, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Hsiao-Fung Pu

Affiliation Department and Institute of Physiology, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Der-Cherng Tarng

dctarng@vghtpe.gov.tw

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, and Immunology Research Center, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department and Institute of Physiology, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DCT. Performed the experiments: HLH HFP. Analyzed the data: SCH YPL. Wrote the paper: SCH.