About the Authors

Masashi Mizuno

masashim1jp@yahoo.co.jp

Affiliations Renal Replacement Therapy, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan, Division of Nephrology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Yasuhiro Suzuki

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Keiko Higashide

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Yumi Sei

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Daiki Iguchi

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Fumiko Sakata

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Masanobu Horie

Affiliation Daiyukai-daiichi Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan

Shoichi Maruyama

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Seiichi Matsuo

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

B. Paul Morgan

Affiliation Complement Biology Group, Division of Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Yasuhiko Ito

Affiliations Renal Replacement Therapy, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan, Division of Nephrology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MM S. Matsuo BPM. Data curation: MM DI. Formal analysis: MM DI FS. Funding acquisition: MM BPM S. Matsuo. Investigation: MM Y. Sei KH FS YI. Methodology: MM S. Maruyama MH. Resources: MM Y. Suzuki MH YI. Validation: MM DI. Writing – original draft: MM BPM. Writing – review & editing: MM BPM.