About the Authors

Yong Tao

Affiliation Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, The Ottawa Hospital—General Campus, 501 Smyth Road, Box 511, Ottawa, Ontario, K1H 8L6, Canada

X. Johné Liu

jliu@ohri.ca

Affiliations Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, The Ottawa Hospital—General Campus, 501 Smyth Road, Box 511, Ottawa, Ontario, K1H 8L6, Canada, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YT XJL. Performed the experiments: YT. Analyzed the data: YT XJL. Wrote the paper: YT XJL.