About the Authors

Kei Fukami

Contributed equally to this work with: Kei Fukami, Sho-ichi Yamagishi

fukami@med.kurume-u.ac.jp (KF); shoichi@med.kurume-u.ac.jp (SY)

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume City, Fukuoka, Japan

Sho-ichi Yamagishi

Contributed equally to this work with: Kei Fukami, Sho-ichi Yamagishi

fukami@med.kurume-u.ac.jp (KF); shoichi@med.kurume-u.ac.jp (SY)

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology and Therapeutics of Diabetic Vascular Complications, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume City, Fukuoka, Japan

Shuji Iida

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume City, Fukuoka, Japan

Hidehiro Matsuoka

Affiliation Division of Cardio-Vascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume City, Fukuoka, Japan

Seiya Okuda

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume City, Fukuoka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KF HM. Performed the experiments: KF SI. Analyzed the data: KF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KF. Wrote the paper: KF SY SO.