About the Authors

Chul-Ho Kim

kim.chulho@mayo.edu

Affiliation Human Integrative and Environmental Physiology Laboratory, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Courtney M. Wheatley

Contributed equally to this work with: Courtney M. Wheatley, Mehrdad Behnia, Bruce D. Johnson

Affiliation Human Integrative and Environmental Physiology Laboratory, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Mehrdad Behnia

Contributed equally to this work with: Courtney M. Wheatley, Mehrdad Behnia, Bruce D. Johnson

Affiliation Cardiopulmonary Laboratory, Doctors Hospital, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Bruce D. Johnson

Contributed equally to this work with: Courtney M. Wheatley, Mehrdad Behnia, Bruce D. Johnson

Affiliation Human Integrative and Environmental Physiology Laboratory, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CK CMW BDJ. Performed the experiments: CK CMW MB BDJ. Analyzed the data: CK CMW MB BDJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CK CMW MB BDJ. Wrote the paper: CK CMW BDJ. Subject recruitment: MB. Writing a part of discussion section: MB.