About the Authors
- Sholpan Askarova
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Affiliations Department of Biological Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cell Technologies, and Transplantation, Center for Life Sciences, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
- Zhe Sun
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Affiliation Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
- Grace Y. Sun
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
- Gerald A. Meininger
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* E-mail: leejam@missouri.edu (JCML); meiningerg@missouri.edu (GAM)
Affiliations Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Medical Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
- James C-M. Lee
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* E-mail: leejam@missouri.edu (JCML); meiningerg@missouri.edu (GAM)
Affiliation Department of Biological Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JCML. Performed the experiments: SA ZS. Analyzed the data: SA ZS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JCML GAM. Wrote the paper: JCML SA GYS GAM.