About the Authors

Mesias Pedroza

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of Immunology, Allergy and Rheumatology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

Sarah To

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of Immunology, Allergy and Rheumatology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

Jennifer Smith

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of Immunology, Allergy and Rheumatology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

Sandeep K. Agarwal

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

skagarwa@bcm.edu

Affiliation Section of Immunology, Allergy and Rheumatology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Agarwal holds the patent for targeting cadherin-11 in fibrotic disease entitled “Detection and treatment of non-dermal fibrosis” (US8877188B2). The patent dose not alter our adherence to the PLOS ONE policies regarding sharing data and materials. All the experiments were funded, designed, performed and analyzed completely independent of pharmaceutical companies developing therapeutics to target cadherin-11 (e.g. Roche). SANDEEP. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.