About the Authors

Teresa M. DesRochers

Contributed equally to this work with: Teresa M. DesRochers, Ivana Y. Kuo

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ivana Y. Kuo

Contributed equally to this work with: Teresa M. DesRochers, Ivana Y. Kuo

Affiliation Departments of Pharmacology and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Erica P. Kimmerling

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Barbara E. Ehrlich

Barbara.ehrlich@yale.edu (BE); David.kaplan@tufts.edu (DK)

Affiliation Departments of Pharmacology and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

David L. Kaplan

Barbara.ehrlich@yale.edu (BE); David.kaplan@tufts.edu (DK)

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TMD IYK BEE DLK. Performed the experiments: TMD IYK EPK. Analyzed the data: TMD IYK EPK. Wrote the paper: TMD IYK EPK BEE DLK.