About the Authors

Pei-Chi Yang

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Britton W. Boras

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Mao-Tsuen Jeng

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Steffen S. Docken

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Timothy J. Lewis

tjlewis@ucdavis.edu (TJL); amcculloch@ucsd.edu (ADM); rdharvey@medicine.nevada.edu (RDH); ceclancy@ucdavis.edu (CEC)

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Andrew D. McCulloch

tjlewis@ucdavis.edu (TJL); amcculloch@ucsd.edu (ADM); rdharvey@medicine.nevada.edu (RDH); ceclancy@ucdavis.edu (CEC)

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Robert D. Harvey

tjlewis@ucdavis.edu (TJL); amcculloch@ucsd.edu (ADM); rdharvey@medicine.nevada.edu (RDH); ceclancy@ucdavis.edu (CEC)

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Center for Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Colleen E. Clancy

tjlewis@ucdavis.edu (TJL); amcculloch@ucsd.edu (ADM); rdharvey@medicine.nevada.edu (RDH); ceclancy@ucdavis.edu (CEC)

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PCY BWB MTJ SSD TJL ADM RDH CEC. Performed the experiments: PCY BWB MTJ SSD. Analyzed the data: PCY BWB MTJ SSD TJL ADM RDH CEC. Wrote the paper: PCY TJL ADM RDH CEC.