About the Authors

Suil Kim

kimsui@ohsu.edu

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Brittney A. Beyer

Contributed equally to this work with: Brittney A. Beyer, Courtney Lewis

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Courtney Lewis

Contributed equally to this work with: Brittney A. Beyer, Courtney Lewis

Affiliations Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jay A. Nadel

Affiliations Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Physiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SK JN. Performed the experiments: SK BB CL. Analyzed the data: SK BB CL JN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SK JN. Wrote the paper: SK.