About the Authors

Azza B. El-Remessy

Affiliations Vascular Biology Center, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Culver Vision Discovery Institute, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Clinical and Experimental Therapeutics, University of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Telina Franklin

Affiliation Vascular Biology Center, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Nagla Ghaley

Affiliation Vascular Biology Center, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Jinling Yang

Current address: Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Affiliations Vascular Biology Center, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Culver Vision Discovery Institute, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Michael W. Brands

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Ruth B. Caldwell

rcaldwel@gru.edu

Affiliations Vascular Biology Center, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Culver Vision Discovery Institute, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Cellular Biology & Anatomy, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Mohamed Ali Behzadian

Affiliations Vascular Biology Center, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Culver Vision Discovery Institute, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ABE JY MWB RBC MAB. Performed the experiments: ABE TF NG JY MWB MAB. Analyzed the data: ABE TF NG JY MWB RBC MAB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MWB RBC MAB. Wrote the manuscript: ABE RBC MAB.