About the Authors

Qian Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qian Zhang, Ming Li

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Ming Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Qian Zhang, Ming Li

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital Affiliated to Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Li You

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Haiming Li

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Li Ni

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Yong Gu

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Chuanming Hao

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Jing Chen

chenjing_1998@yahoo.com.cn

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QZ ML. Performed the experiments: QZ YG LN HL. Analyzed the data: QZ LY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QZ ML. Wrote the paper: QZ ML YG LN CH JC.