About the Authors

Weina Cui

Affiliation Department of Medicine/Cardiology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Albert Jang

Affiliation Department of Medicine/Cardiology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Pengyuan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Medicine/Cardiology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Brian Thompson

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

DeWayne Townsend

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Joseph M. Metzger

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Jianyi Zhang

zhang047@umn.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine/Cardiology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JM JZ. Performed the experiments: WC AJ PZ BT DT. Analyzed the data: WC AJ PZ BT DT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JM JZ. Wrote the paper: WC JM JZ.