About the Authors

Fengxun Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Fengxun Liu, Jia Guo

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China, Nephropathy Research Institutes of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China, Key-Disciplines Laboratory Clinical-Medicine Henan, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China

Jia Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Fengxun Liu, Jia Guo

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China, Nephropathy Research Institutes of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China, Key-Disciplines Laboratory Clinical-Medicine Henan, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China

Qian Zhang

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China, Nephropathy Research Institutes of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China, Key-Disciplines Laboratory Clinical-Medicine Henan, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China

Dongwei Liu

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China, Nephropathy Research Institutes of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China, Key-Disciplines Laboratory Clinical-Medicine Henan, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China

Lu Wen

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China, Nephropathy Research Institutes of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China, Key-Disciplines Laboratory Clinical-Medicine Henan, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China

Yang Yang

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China, Nephropathy Research Institutes of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China, Key-Disciplines Laboratory Clinical-Medicine Henan, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China

Liu Yang

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China, Nephropathy Research Institutes of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China, Key-Disciplines Laboratory Clinical-Medicine Henan, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China

Zhangsuo Liu

zhangsuoliu@sina.com

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China, Nephropathy Research Institutes of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China, Key-Disciplines Laboratory Clinical-Medicine Henan, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JG ZSL. Performed the experiments: FXL. Analyzed the data: DWL QZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZSL. Wrote the paper: FXL. Collected specimens: FXL LW YY LY.