About the Authors

Ping Wen

Affiliation Center for Kidney Disease, Second Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Dan Song

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Affiliated Wuxi Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, China

Hong Ye

Affiliation Center for Kidney Disease, Second Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Xiaochun Wu

Affiliation Center for Kidney Disease, Second Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Lei Jiang

Affiliation Center for Kidney Disease, Second Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Bing Tang

Affiliation Center for Kidney Disease, Second Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Yang Zhou

Affiliation Center for Kidney Disease, Second Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Li Fang

Affiliation Center for Kidney Disease, Second Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Hongdi Cao

Affiliation Center for Kidney Disease, Second Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Weichun He

Affiliation Center for Kidney Disease, Second Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Yafang Yang

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Second Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Chunsun Dai

Affiliation Center for Kidney Disease, Second Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Junwei Yang

jwyang@njmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Center for Kidney Disease, Second Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JY. Performed the experiments: PW. Analyzed the data: PW DS. Wrote the paper: PW. Participated in designing the experiment: CD. In charge of the preparation of the manuscript: WH. Made some contributions in the experiments: DS. Collected the information of the patients: HY XW BT. Did part work of the experiment: LJ YZ LF HC. Analysis tools: YY.