About the Authors

Zaid A. Abassi

Contributed equally to this work with: Zaid A. Abassi, Marina Okun-Gurevich

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

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

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel

Hoda Awad

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel

Yossi Mandel

Affiliations Israeli Medical Corps, Tel Aviv, Israel, The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

Gadi Campino

Affiliation Israeli Medical Corps, Tel Aviv, Israel

Ahmad Mahajna

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel

Giora Z. Feuerstein

Affiliation Cellphire Inc. Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Mike Fitzpatrick

Affiliation Cellphire Inc. Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Aaron Hoffman

Affiliation Department of Vascular Surgery, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel

Joseph Winaver

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.