About the Authors

Dingkun Gui

Contributed equally to this work with: Dingkun Gui, Yongping Guo, Feng Wang

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Zhejiang Hospital, Hangzhou, China, Department of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Yongping Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Dingkun Gui, Yongping Guo, Feng Wang

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Feng Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Dingkun Gui, Yongping Guo, Feng Wang

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Wei Liu

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, No 1 Hospital of Chenzhou, Chenzhou, China

Jianguo Chen

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Zhejiang Hospital, Hangzhou, China

Yifang Chen

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Zhejiang Hospital, Hangzhou, China

Jianhua Huang

hjhzyj@yahoo.com.cn (JH); wangniansong@yahoo.com.cn (NW)

Affiliation Institute of Integrated Chinese and Western medicine, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Niansong Wang

hjhzyj@yahoo.com.cn (JH); wangniansong@yahoo.com.cn (NW)

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DG JH NW. Performed the experiments: DG JH FW. Analyzed the data: YG WL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JC YC. Wrote the paper: DG JH.