About the Authors

Trinity J. Bivalacqua

Contributed equally to this work with: Trinity J. Bivalacqua, Biljana Musicki

Affiliation The James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Biljana Musicki

Contributed equally to this work with: Trinity J. Bivalacqua, Biljana Musicki

Affiliation The James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Lewis L. Hsu

Affiliations Vascular Medicine Branch, National Heart Lung Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Dan E. Berkowitz

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, and Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Hunter C. Champion

Affiliation Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Arthur L. Burnett

aburnet1@jhmi.edu

Affiliation The James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TJB BM LLH DEB HCC ALB. Performed the experiments: TJB HCC. Analyzed the data: TJB BM LLH DEB HCC ALB. Wrote the paper: TJB BM LLH DEB HCC ALB.