1. Department of Nephrology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
2. Department of Inter-Organ Communication Research in Kidney Disease, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
3. Department of Internal Medicine, Kisei Hospital, Osaka, Japan
4. Harold Simmons Center for Kidney Disease Research and Epidemiology, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, CA, USA
5. Health Care Center, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
6. Department of Advanced Technology for Transplantation, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
7. Department of Functional Diagnostic Science, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan