About the Authors

Qian Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qian Zhang, Ming Li, Tiansong Zhang

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Huashan Hospital and Huashan Hospital North, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Ming Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Qian Zhang, Ming Li, Tiansong Zhang

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital Affiliated to Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Tiansong Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qian Zhang, Ming Li, Tiansong Zhang

Affiliation Department of TCM, Jing’an District centre hospital of Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Jing Chen

chenjing1998@fudan.edu.cn

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JC. Performed the experiments: QZ ML TZ. Analyzed the data: QZ ML TZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QZ ML TZ. Wrote the paper: JC. Critically revised the manuscript for intellectual content, discussion of findings, and overall conclusions: QZ ML TZ JC.