About the Authors

Kristin Dawson

Contributed equally to this work with: Kristin Dawson, Chia-Tung Wu

Affiliations Research Center, Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Chia-Tung Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Kristin Dawson, Chia-Tung Wu

Affiliations Research Center, Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Medicine, Montreal Heart Institute and Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital and University Taoyuan, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Republic of China

Xiao Yan Qi

Affiliation Research Center, Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Stanley Nattel

stanley.nattel@icm-mhi.org

Affiliations Research Center, Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Medicine, Montreal Heart Institute and Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KD CW SN. Performed the experiments: KD CW XQ. Analyzed the data: KD CW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KD CW XQ. Wrote the paper: KD SN.