About the Authors

Syed K. Rafi

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

rafigene@yahoo.com (SKR); isaadi@kumc.edu (IS)

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Jeremy P. Goering

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Adam J. Olm-Shipman

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Lauren A. Hipp

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Nicholas J. Ernst

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Nathan R. Wilson

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Center for Regenerative Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Everett G. Hall

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Clinical Research Training Center, Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Sumedha Gunewardena

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Irfan Saadi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

rafigene@yahoo.com (SKR); isaadi@kumc.edu (IS)

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors do not have any competing financial interests pertaining to the studies presented here.