About the Authors

Yusi Wang

Affiliation Vascular Biology Center, Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Feng Chen

Affiliations Vascular Biology Center, Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Forensic Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Brian Le

Affiliation Vascular Biology Center, Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

David W. Stepp

Affiliations Vascular Biology Center, Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Physiology, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

David J. R. Fulton

dfulton@gru.edu

Affiliations Vascular Biology Center, Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YW BL DF. Performed the experiments: YW BL. Analyzed the data: YW BL FC DF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DF DS. Wrote the paper: YW BL DF.