About the Authors

Libang Yang

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Zhaohui Geng

Affiliation Stem Cell Institute, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Thomas Nickel

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Caitlin Johnson

Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Lin Gao

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

James Dutton

Affiliation Stem Cell Institute, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Cody Hou

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Jianyi Zhang

jayzhang@uab.edu

Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Stem Cell Institute, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, School of Engineering, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LY JZ. Performed the experiments: LY ZG TN CJ LG JD CH. Analyzed the data: LY CH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LY JZ. Wrote the paper: LY JZ.