About the Authors

Bashir M. Rezk

Current address: Department of Natural Sciences, Southern University at New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Affiliation Heart and Vascular Institute, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Tadashi Yoshida

Affiliation Heart and Vascular Institute, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Laura Semprun-Prieto

Affiliation Heart and Vascular Institute, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Yusuke Higashi

Affiliation Heart and Vascular Institute, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Sergiy Sukhanov

Affiliation Heart and Vascular Institute, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Patrice Delafontaine

pdelafon@tulane.edu

Affiliation Heart and Vascular Institute, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS PD YH. Performed the experiments: BMR LSP TY. Analyzed the data: BMR TY YH SS PD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PD. Wrote the paper: BMR TY PD.