About the Authors

Jon M. Carthy

Affiliation UBC James Hogg Research Centre, Institute for Heart+Lung Health, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Farshid S. Garmaroudi

Affiliation UBC James Hogg Research Centre, Institute for Heart+Lung Health, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Zongshu Luo

Affiliation UBC James Hogg Research Centre, Institute for Heart+Lung Health, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Bruce M. McManus

bruce.mcmanus@hli.ubc.ca

Affiliation UBC James Hogg Research Centre, Institute for Heart+Lung Health, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMC BMM. Performed the experiments: JMC. Analyzed the data: JMC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BMM. Wrote the paper: JMC BMM. Provided intellectual guidance during revisions as well as helped with organizing figures: FSG. Performed qPCR for revised manuscript: ZL.