About the Authors

Keiichi Sumida

k-sumida@umin.ac.jp

Affiliations Nephrology Center, Toranomon Hospital Kajigaya, Kanagawa, Japan, Nephrology Center, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Junichi Hoshino

Affiliations Nephrology Center, Toranomon Hospital Kajigaya, Kanagawa, Japan, Nephrology Center, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Toshiharu Ueno

Affiliation Nephrology Center, Toranomon Hospital Kajigaya, Kanagawa, Japan

Koki Mise

Affiliation Nephrology Center, Toranomon Hospital Kajigaya, Kanagawa, Japan

Noriko Hayami

Affiliations Nephrology Center, Toranomon Hospital Kajigaya, Kanagawa, Japan, Nephrology Center, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Tatsuya Suwabe

Affiliations Nephrology Center, Toranomon Hospital Kajigaya, Kanagawa, Japan, Nephrology Center, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Masahiro Kawada

Affiliation Nephrology Center, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Aya Imafuku

Affiliation Nephrology Center, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Rikako Hiramatsu

Affiliation Nephrology Center, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Eiko Hasegawa

Affiliation Nephrology Center, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Masayuki Yamanouchi

Affiliation Nephrology Center, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Naoki Sawa

Affiliation Nephrology Center, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Takeshi Fujii

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Kenichi Ohashi

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Pathology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Kenmei Takaichi

Affiliations Nephrology Center, Toranomon Hospital Kajigaya, Kanagawa, Japan, Nephrology Center, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, Okinaka Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Yoshifumi Ubara

Affiliations Nephrology Center, Toranomon Hospital Kajigaya, Kanagawa, Japan, Nephrology Center, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, Okinaka Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KS JH YU. Performed the experiments: KS JH YU. Analyzed the data: KS JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JH TU KM NH TS MK AI RH EH MY NS TF KO KT YU. Wrote the paper: KS JH YU.