About the Authors

Majid Iqbal

majid.iqbal@utoronto.ca

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hay Lam Ho

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Sophie Petropoulos

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Vasilis G. Moisiadis

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

William Gibb

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Stephen G. Matthews

Affiliations Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MI WG SGM. Performed the experiments: MI HLH SP VGM. Analyzed the data: MI. Wrote the paper: MI.