About the Authors

Ayako Kondo

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan

Kazuo Takahashi

kazuot@fujita-hu.ac.jp (KT); kmiura@fujita-hu.ac.jp (KM)

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan

Tomohiro Mizuno

Affiliations Analytical Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Meijo University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, Department of Nephrology, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan

Akihiro Kato

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan

Daisuke Hirano

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan

Naoki Yamamoto

Affiliation Institute of Joint Research, Fujita Health University, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan

Hiroki Hayashi

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan

Shigehisa Koide

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan

Hiroshi Takahashi

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan

Midori Hasegawa

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan

Yoshiyuki Hiki

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan, Fujita Health University School of Health Sciences, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan

Shunji Yoshida

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan

Keiji Miura

kazuot@fujita-hu.ac.jp (KT); kmiura@fujita-hu.ac.jp (KM)

Affiliation Fujita Health University School of Health Sciences, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan

Yukio Yuzawa

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: KT SY KM YY. Data curation: A. Kondo KT HT KM. Formal analysis: A. Kondo KT NY HT YH KM. Funding acquisition: KT KM YY. Investigation: A. Kondo KT TM A. Kato KM. Methodology: A. Kondo KT KM YY. Project administration: KT KM YY. Resources: KT DH HH SK MH SY KM YY. Supervision: KT YH KM YY. Validation: A. Kondo KT HT KM. Visualization: A. Kondo KT TM KM. Writing – original draft: A. Kondo KT TM. Writing – review & editing: A. Kondo KT TM KM YY.