Li, Fengmin
Yang, Jian
Villar, Van Anthony M.
Asico, Laureano D.
Ma, Xiaobo
Armando, Ines
Sanada, Hironobu
Yoneda, Minoru
Felder, Robin A.
Jose, Pedro A.
Wang, Xiaoyan
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R01DK039308, and R01DK090918)
National Kidney Foundation (Professional Development Award (2014))
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81100500)
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R37HL023081, P01HL068686, P01HL074940, R01HL092196)
Diabetes Action Research and Education Foundation (Research grant (2015))
Article History
Received: 6 April 2017
Accepted: 2 October 2017
First Online: 28 October 2017
Data availability
: The data in this report are available on request to the corresponding author.
: These studies were supported, in part, by grants R37HL023081, P01HL068686, P01HL074940, R01HL092196, R01DK039308, and R01DK090918 from the US National Institutes of Health. XW was also supported by a Professional Development Award from the National Kidney Foundation of Maryland (NKF-MD) and Diabetes Action Research and Education Foundation. VMV was supported by a minigrant from NKF-MD and JY was also supported by grants 81100500 and 81570379 from the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
: The authors declare that there is no duality of interest associated with this manuscript.
: FL, JY, and VMV participated in the study conception and design and data acquisition and analyses of the cell experiments, and drafted, revised and approved the manuscript. LDA, XM, and IA participated in data acquisition and analyses for the mouse experiments and revised and approved the manuscript. HS and MY participated in the study conception and design, data acquisition and analyses for the rat experiments and revised and approved the manuscript. RAF participated in the conception and design of the cell experiments and revised and approved the manuscript. PAJ participated in the conception and design of all the experiments and revised and approved the manuscript. XW participated in the study conception and design and the data acquisition and analyses for the mouse and rat experiments and revised and approved the manuscript. XW and VMV are the guarantors of this work and, as such, had full access to all the data in the study. They take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.
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