About the Authors

Yifei Zhong

yifeilily@126.com (YZ); dengyueyi@medmail.com.cn (YD)

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Longhua Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

Xianwen Zhang

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Longhua Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

Xianfan Cai

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Longhua Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

Ke Wang

Affiliation National Engineering Research Center for Biochip at Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Yiping Chen

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Longhua Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

Yueyi Deng

yifeilily@126.com (YZ); dengyueyi@medmail.com.cn (YD)

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Longhua Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YZ YC YD. Performed the experiments: YZ XZ XC KW. Analyzed the data: YZ XZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YZ YD. Wrote the paper: YZ YD.