About the Authors

Johnson Rajasingh

rjohnson9@kumc.edu

Current address: Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Center of Lung and Vascular Biology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Jayakumar Thangavel

Current address: Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Center of Lung and Vascular Biology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Mohammad R. Siddiqui

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Center of Lung and Vascular Biology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Ignatius Gomes

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Center of Lung and Vascular Biology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Xiao-pei Gao

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Center of Lung and Vascular Biology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Raj Kishore

Affiliation Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute, Northwestern University School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Asrar B. Malik

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Center of Lung and Vascular Biology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JR RK ABM. Performed the experiments: JR JT MRS XG IG. Analyzed the data: JR ABM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JR ABM. Wrote the paper: JR ABM.