About the Authors

Samuel C. Tyagi

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

Affiliations Saha Cardiovascular Research Center, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Saha Aortic Center, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Sohei Ito

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Saha Cardiovascular Research Center, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Saha Aortic Center, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Jacob C. Hubbuch

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Saha Cardiovascular Research Center, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Saha Aortic Center, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Michael K. Franklin

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Saha Cardiovascular Research Center, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Saha Aortic Center, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Deborah A. Howatt

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Saha Cardiovascular Research Center, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Saha Aortic Center, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Hong S. Lu

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Saha Cardiovascular Research Center, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Saha Aortic Center, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Alan Daugherty

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

hisashi.sawada@uky.edu (HS); Alan.Daugherty@uky.edu (AD)

Affiliations Saha Cardiovascular Research Center, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Saha Aortic Center, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Hisashi Sawada

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

hisashi.sawada@uky.edu (HS); Alan.Daugherty@uky.edu (AD)

Affiliations Saha Cardiovascular Research Center, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Saha Aortic Center, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.