1. From the Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Hypertension, Kidney and Vascular Research Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC (L.L., D.F., Z.L., W.J.W., C.S.W., E.Y.L.); and Department of Physiology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China (E.Y.L.).