About the Authors

John R. Bankston

Contributed equally to this work with: John R. Bankston, Minerva Yue

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Minerva Yue

Contributed equally to this work with: John R. Bankston, Minerva Yue

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Wendy Chung

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Meghan Spyres

Affiliation College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Robert H. Pass

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Eric Silver

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Kevin J. Sampson

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Robert S. Kass

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: rsk20@columbia.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RK. Performed the experiments: JB MY WC RP ES KS. Analyzed the data: RK JB MY WC MS RP ES KS. Wrote the paper: RK JB MY RP KS.