About the Authors

Kei Hihara

Contributed equally to this work with: Kei Hihara, Masayuki Iyoda

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Masayuki Iyoda

Contributed equally to this work with: Kei Hihara, Masayuki Iyoda

iyoda@med.showa-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Shohei Tachibana

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Ken Iseri

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Tomohiro Saito

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Yasutaka Yamamoto

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Taihei Suzuki

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Yukihiro Wada

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Kei Matsumoto

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Takanori Shibata

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MI T. Shibata. Performed the experiments: KH MI ST KI T. Saito YY T. Suzuki YW KM. Analyzed the data: KH MI T. Shibata. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MI T. Shibata. Wrote the paper: KH MI T. Shibata.