About the Authors

Wilfred W. Raymond

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Institute, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Xiang Xu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Shilpa Nimishakavi

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Institute, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Catherine Le

Current address: School of Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Donald M. McDonald

Affiliations Cardiovascular Research Institute, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

George H. Caughey

George.Caughey@ucsf.edu

Affiliations Cardiovascular Research Institute, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Northern California Institute for Research and Education, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WWR XX DMM GHC. Performed the experiments: WWR XX SN CL. Analyzed the data: WWR XX SN CL DMM GHC. Wrote the paper: WWR DMM GHC.