About the Authors
- Darryl R. Davis
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Affiliation Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Yiqiang Zhang
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Affiliation Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Rachel R. Smith
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Affiliation Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Ke Cheng
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Affiliation Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- John Terrovitis
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Affiliation Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Konstantinos Malliaras
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Affiliation Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Tao-Sheng Li
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Affiliation Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Anthony White
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Affiliation Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Raj Makkar
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Affiliation Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Eduardo Marbán
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* E-mail: eduardo.marban@csmc.edu
Affiliation Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
Dr Eduardo Marbán holds equity in a private company (Capricor Inc.) that licenses techniques used to manufacture cardiac stem cells. Dr Rachel Ruckdeschel Smith is employed by Capricor Inc. Capricor provided no funding for the present work. The remaining co-authors have nothing to disclose.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: DRD YZ RRS EM. Performed the experiments: DRD YZ RRS KC JT KM TSL AW. Analyzed the data: DRD YZ RRS. Wrote the paper: DRD YZ RRS RM EM.