About the Authors

Maria Eugenia Teves

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Gobalakrishnan Sundaresan

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

David J. Cohen

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Sharon L. Hyzy

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Illya Kajan

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Melissa Maczis

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Zhibing Zhang

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Richard M. Costanzo

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Jamal Zweit

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Zvi Schwartz

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Barbara D. Boyan

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Jerome F. Strauss III

jfstrauss@vcu.edu

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MET GS ZS JFS. Performed the experiments: MET GS DJC SLH IK MM. Analyzed the data: MET GS SLH ZS JFS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GS JZ RMC ZS BDB. Wrote the paper: MET JFS. Contributed with edition and comments on the manuscript: SLH ZZ RMC ZS BDB.