About the Authors

Lingling Wu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Nephrology, PLA General Hospital and Military Medical Postgraduate College, Beijing, China, Medical College, NanKai University, Tianjin, China

Zhe Feng

xmchen301@126.com (XC); zhezhe_4025@126.com (ZF)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Nephrology, PLA General Hospital and Military Medical Postgraduate College, Beijing, China

Shaoyuan Cui

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Nephrology, PLA General Hospital and Military Medical Postgraduate College, Beijing, China

Kai Hou

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Nephrology, PLA General Hospital and Military Medical Postgraduate College, Beijing, China

Li Tang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Nephrology, PLA General Hospital and Military Medical Postgraduate College, Beijing, China

Jianhui Zhou

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Nephrology, PLA General Hospital and Military Medical Postgraduate College, Beijing, China

Guangyan Cai

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Nephrology, PLA General Hospital and Military Medical Postgraduate College, Beijing, China

Yuansheng Xie

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Nephrology, PLA General Hospital and Military Medical Postgraduate College, Beijing, China

Quan Hong

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Nephrology, PLA General Hospital and Military Medical Postgraduate College, Beijing, China

Bo Fu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Nephrology, PLA General Hospital and Military Medical Postgraduate College, Beijing, China

Xiangmei Chen

xmchen301@126.com (XC); zhezhe_4025@126.com (ZF)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Nephrology, PLA General Hospital and Military Medical Postgraduate College, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Read and approved the final manuscript: LW ZF SC KH LT JZ GC YX QH BF XC. Conceived and designed the experiments: ZF XC. Performed the experiments: LW SC. Analyzed the data: LW ZF QH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KH LT JZ GC YX BF. Wrote the paper: LW ZF.