About the Authors

Dongsheng Cheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Dongsheng Cheng, Yang Fei

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Shanghai Jiaotong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, P.R. China, 200233

Yang Fei

Contributed equally to this work with: Dongsheng Cheng, Yang Fei

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Shanghai Jiaotong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, P.R. China, 200233

Yumei Liu

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Shanghai Jiaotong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, P.R. China, 200233

Junhui Li

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Shanghai Jiaotong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, P.R. China, 200233

Qin Xue

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Shanghai Jiaotong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, P.R. China, 200233

Xiaoxia Wang

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Shanghai Jiaotong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, P.R. China, 200233

Niansong Wang

wangniansong2012@163.com

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Shanghai Jiaotong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, P.R. China, 200233

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DC YF XW NW. Performed the experiments: DC YF NW. Analyzed the data: DC YF QX XW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DC YL JL. Wrote the paper: DC YF NW.