About the Authors
- Eleni Tseliou
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Affiliation Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
- Hideaki Kanazawa
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Affiliation Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- James Dawkins
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Affiliation Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
- Romain Gallet
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Affiliation Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
- Michelle Kreke
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Affiliation Capricor Inc., Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
- Rachel Smith
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Affiliations Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, Capricor Inc., Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
- Ryan Middleton
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Affiliation Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
- Jackelyn Valle
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Affiliation Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
- Linda Marbán
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Affiliations Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, Capricor Inc., Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
- Saibal Kar
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Affiliation Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
- Rajendra Makkar
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Affiliation Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
- Eduardo Marbán
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* E-mail: Eduardo.Marban@csmc.edu
Affiliations Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, Capricor Inc., Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
Competing Interests
This work was supported by the Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Heart Stem Cell Center. The Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Heart Stem Cell Center provided support in the form of salaries for authors ET, HK, JD, JV, RM, RM, SK and EM, but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The specific roles of these authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section. RS, LM and MK are employed by Capricor Inc but did not participate in the funding of this study nor did they play a role in the study design, data collection, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: ET EM. Performed the experiments: ET HK JD RG MK JV R. Middleton. Analyzed the data: ET MK RS SK R. Middleton LM R. Makkar EM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ET MK RS SK R. Middleton LM R. Makkar EM. Wrote the paper: ET EM. Revised the manuscript critically for important intellectual content and approved the submission: EM.