About the Authors

Chia-Lin Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chia-Lin Wu, Hung-Ming Wu

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Hung-Ming Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chia-Lin Wu, Hung-Ming Wu

Affiliation Inflammation Research and Drug Development Center, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan

Ping-Fang Chiu

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Hung-Hsiang Liou

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hsin Jen Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chirn-Bin Chang

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Der-Cherng Tarng

dctarng@vghtpe.gov.tw (DCT); Chiachu@cch.org.tw (CCC)

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

Chia-Chu Chang

dctarng@vghtpe.gov.tw (DCT); Chiachu@cch.org.tw (CCC)

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HMW CCC. Performed the experiments: HMW CBC. Analyzed the data: CLW HMW PFC CCC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CLW HMW PFC HHL DCT CCC. Wrote the paper: CLW HMW.