About the Authors
- Zaid A. Abassi
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Contributed equally to this work with: Zaid A. Abassi, Marina Okun-Gurevich
* E-mail: abassi@tx.technion.ac.il
Affiliations Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel, Research Unit, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
- Marina Okun-Gurevich
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Contributed equally to this work with: Zaid A. Abassi, Marina Okun-Gurevich
Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel
- Niroz Abu Salah
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Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel
- Hoda Awad
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Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel
- Yossi Mandel
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Affiliations Israeli Medical Corps, Tel Aviv, Israel, The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
- Gadi Campino
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Affiliation Israeli Medical Corps, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Ahmad Mahajna
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Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
- Giora Z. Feuerstein
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Affiliation Cellphire Inc. Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Mike Fitzpatrick
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Affiliation Cellphire Inc. Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Aaron Hoffman
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Affiliation Department of Vascular Surgery, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
- Joseph Winaver
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Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel
Competing Interests
Drs. Giora Z. Feuerstein and Mike Fitzpatrick are affiliated to Cellphire Company. The affiliation of Drs. Giora Z. Feuerstein and Mike Fitzpatrick with Cellphire does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: ZAA YM GC GZF MF JW. Performed the experiments: ZAA MO-G NA-S HA AH AM. Analyzed the data: ZAA MO-G NA-S HA GZF MF JW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GC YM GZF MF. Wrote the manuscript: ZAA MO-G NA-S YM GC AM GZF MF AH JW.