About the Authors

Stephanie L. Samani

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

Affiliations Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC, United States of America, Columbia VA Health Care System, Columbia, SC, United States of America

Shayne C. Barlow

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC, United States of America

Lisa A. Freeburg

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC, United States of America, Columbia VA Health Care System, Columbia, SC, United States of America

Traci L. Jones

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliation Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC, United States of America

Marlee Poole

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliation Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC, United States of America

Mark A. Sarzynski

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Exercise Science, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States of America

Michael R. Zile

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, RHJ Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States of America

Tarek Shazly

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Engineering and Computing, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States of America

Francis G. Spinale

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

cvctrc@uscmed.sc.edu

Current address: Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Affiliations Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC, United States of America, Columbia VA Health Care System, Columbia, SC, United States of America, College of Engineering and Computing, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States of America, Cardiovascular Translational Research Center, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.