About the Authors

Bo Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Bo Yang, Jing Xu

Affiliation Kidney Institute of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Division of Nephrology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Jing Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Bo Yang, Jing Xu

Affiliation Kidney Institute of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Division of Nephrology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Fengying Xu

Affiliation Division of Anesthesiology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Zui Zou

Affiliation Division of Anesthesiology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Chaoyang Ye

Affiliation Kidney Institute of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Division of Nephrology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Changlin Mei

maozhiguo93@gmail.com (ZM); chlmei1954@126.com (CM)

Affiliation Kidney Institute of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Division of Nephrology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Zhiguo Mao

maozhiguo93@gmail.com (ZM); chlmei1954@126.com (CM)

Affiliation Kidney Institute of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Division of Nephrology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CM ZM. Performed the experiments: BY JX CY. Analyzed the data: BY JX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BY JX. Wrote the paper: BY FX ZZ. Checking of data: CY. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: ZZ ZM.