About the Authors

Adriana Gregory

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Mohammad Mehrmohammadi

Current address: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Max Denis

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Mahdi Bayat

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Daniela L. Stan

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Mostafa Fatemi

‡ AA and MF are Joint Senior Authors.

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Azra Alizad

Alizad.Azra@mayo.edu

‡ AA and MF are Joint Senior Authors.

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AG MM MD MB MF AA. Performed the experiments: AG MM MD MB MF AA. Analyzed the data: AG MM MD MB MF AA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AG MM MD MB MF AA. Wrote the paper: AG MM MD MB DS MF AA.