About the Authors

Vladimir V. Shuvaev

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Center for Translational Targeted Therapeutics and Nanomedicine of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.

Jingyan Han

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Center for Translational Targeted Therapeutics and Nanomedicine of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.

Samira Tliba

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Center for Translational Targeted Therapeutics and Nanomedicine of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.

Evguenia Arguiri

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Division, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Melpo Christofidou-Solomidou

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Division, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Servio H. Ramirez

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Holly Dykstra

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yuri Persidsky

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Dmitriy N. Atochin

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Center and Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Paul L. Huang

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Center and Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Vladimir R. Muzykantov

muzykant@mail.med.upenn.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Center for Translational Targeted Therapeutics and Nanomedicine of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VVS JH MCS SHR YP DNA PLH VRM. Performed the experiments: VVS JH ST EA SHR HD DNA. Analyzed the data: VVS JH MCS SHR HD YP DNA PLH VRM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VVS JH EA SHR HD DNA. Wrote the paper: VVS SHR DNA VRM. Reviewed and corrected the manuscript: JH ST EA MCS HD YP PLH.