About the Authors

Ehud Segal

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Huaizhong Pan

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Center for Controlled Chemical Delivery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Paula Ofek

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Taturo Udagawa

Affiliation Vascular Biology Program and Department of Surgery, Karp Family Research Laboratories, Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Pavla Kopečková

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Center for Controlled Chemical Delivery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Jindřich Kopeček

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Center for Controlled Chemical Delivery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Ronit Satchi-Fainaro

ronitsf@post.tau.ac.il

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ES HP PK JK RSF. Performed the experiments: ES HP PO PK JK RSF. Analyzed the data: ES HP PK JK RSF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TU PK JK RSF. Wrote the paper: ES PK JK RSF.