About the Authors

C. Makena Hightower

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Beatriz Y. Salazar Vázquez

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Hospital General de México, México D.F., Mexico

Seetharama A. Acharya

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Shankar Subramaniam

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Marcos Intaglietta

mintagli@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CMH BYSV SAA SS MI. Performed the experiments: CMH BYSV. Analyzed the data: CMH BYSV SAA SS MI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SAA SS. Wrote the paper: CMH SAA SS MI.