About the Authors

Junzhou Fu

Contributed equally to this work with: Junzhou Fu, Jun Huang

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Guangzhou First People's Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510180, China

Jun Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Junzhou Fu, Jun Huang

Affiliation Graduate School of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China

Ming Lei

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Command of PLA, Guangzhou 510010, China

Zhengmao Luo

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Command of PLA, Guangzhou 510010, China

Xianyang Zhong

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Command of PLA, Guangzhou 510010, China

Yuanhang Huang

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Command of PLA, Guangzhou 510010, China

Hong Zhang

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Command of PLA, Guangzhou 510010, China

Riguang Liu

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Guangzhou First People's Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510180, China

Junrong Tong

tongjr63@163.com (JT); hefengmm@163.com (FH)

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Command of PLA, Guangzhou 510010, China

Feng He

tongjr63@163.com (JT); hefengmm@163.com (FH)

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Guangzhou First People's Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510180, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FH JT. Performed the experiments: JF JH ML ZL XZ YH HZ RL. Analyzed the data: JF JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JT. Wrote the paper: FH.