About the Authors

Xing Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Xing Li, Kaiqi Ren

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Innovation and Technology, PuAi Medical School, Shaoyang University, Shaoyang, China

Kaiqi Ren

Contributed equally to this work with: Xing Li, Kaiqi Ren

Roles Investigation

‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliations Center for Biomedical Innovation and Technology, PuAi Medical School, Shaoyang University, Shaoyang, China, Department of Nephrology, Shaoyang University Affiliated Second Hospital, Shaoyang, Hunan, China

Michal R. Baran

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Juan Tang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Innovation and Technology, PuAi Medical School, Shaoyang University, Shaoyang, China

Le Wang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Innovation and Technology, PuAi Medical School, Shaoyang University, Shaoyang, China

Gabriel Mbuta Tchivelekete

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Department of Marine Biology, Faculty of Natural Science, University of Namibe, Moçâmedes, Angola

Yi Guo

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Innovation and Technology, PuAi Medical School, Shaoyang University, Shaoyang, China

Yang Bai

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Innovation and Technology, PuAi Medical School, Shaoyang University, Shaoyang, China

Weijian Yan

Roles Supervision

xinhua.shu@gcu.ac.uk (XS); yanweijian@hnsyu.edu.cn (YW)

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Shaoyang University Affiliated Second Hospital, Shaoyang, Hunan, China

Xinhua Shu

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

xinhua.shu@gcu.ac.uk (XS); yanweijian@hnsyu.edu.cn (YW)

Affiliation Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.