About the Authors

Emma M. L. Chung

Contributed equally to this work with: Emma M. L. Chung, Caroline Banahan, Nikil Patel

emlc1@le.ac.uk (EMLC); Jim.Hague@open.ac.uk (JPH)

Affiliations University of Leicester Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Leicester, United Kingdom, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, United Kingdom, Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Leicester, United Kingdom

Caroline Banahan

Contributed equally to this work with: Emma M. L. Chung, Caroline Banahan, Nikil Patel

Affiliations University of Leicester Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Leicester, United Kingdom, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, United Kingdom

Nikil Patel

Contributed equally to this work with: Emma M. L. Chung, Caroline Banahan, Nikil Patel

Affiliations University of Leicester Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Leicester, United Kingdom, Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Leicester, United Kingdom

Justyna Janus

Affiliation University of Leicester Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Leicester, United Kingdom

David Marshall

Affiliations University of Leicester Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Leicester, United Kingdom, Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Leicester, United Kingdom

Mark A. Horsfield

Affiliation University of Leicester Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Leicester, United Kingdom

Clément Rousseau

Affiliation Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Leicester, United Kingdom

Jonathan Keelan

Affiliation Open University Department of Physical Sciences, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

David H. Evans

Affiliation University of Leicester Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Leicester, United Kingdom

James P. Hague

emlc1@le.ac.uk (EMLC); Jim.Hague@open.ac.uk (JPH)

Affiliation Open University Department of Physical Sciences, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EMLC JPH CB DHE. Performed the experiments: CB NP JJ. Analyzed the data: CB NP DM MAH CR JK JPH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CR. Wrote the paper: EMLC CB JPH.