About the Authors

Xiaoliang Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoliang Jiang, Wei Chen

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) & Comparative Medicine Centre, Peking Union Medical Collage (PUMC), Beijing, P. R. China

Wei Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoliang Jiang, Wei Chen

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) & Comparative Medicine Centre, Peking Union Medical Collage (PUMC), Beijing, P. R. China

Xing Liu

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) & Comparative Medicine Centre, Peking Union Medical Collage (PUMC), Beijing, P. R. China

Zihao Wang

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) & Comparative Medicine Centre, Peking Union Medical Collage (PUMC), Beijing, P. R. China

Yunpeng Liu

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) & Comparative Medicine Centre, Peking Union Medical Collage (PUMC), Beijing, P. R. China

Robin A. Felder

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

John J. Gildea

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Pedro A. Jose

pjose@medicine.umaryland.edu (PAJ); qinchuan@pumc.edu.cn (CQ); yangzhiwei@cnilas.pumc.edu.cn (ZWY)

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Departments of Medicine and Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Chuan Qin

pjose@medicine.umaryland.edu (PAJ); qinchuan@pumc.edu.cn (CQ); yangzhiwei@cnilas.pumc.edu.cn (ZWY)

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) & Comparative Medicine Centre, Peking Union Medical Collage (PUMC), Beijing, P. R. China

Zhiwei Yang

pjose@medicine.umaryland.edu (PAJ); qinchuan@pumc.edu.cn (CQ); yangzhiwei@cnilas.pumc.edu.cn (ZWY)

Affiliations Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) & Comparative Medicine Centre, Peking Union Medical Collage (PUMC), Beijing, P. R. China, CollaborativeInnovation Center for Cardiovascular Disorders, Beijing, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XLJ WC PAJ CQ ZWY. Performed the experiments: XLJ WC XL ZHW YPL. Analyzed the data: XLJ WC XL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WC XL. Wrote the paper: XLJ WC. Segmentations and reconstructions: RAF JJG.