About the Authors

Hananeh Fonoudi

Affiliations Department of Stem Cells and Developmental Biology, Cell Science Research Center, Royan Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Technology, Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research, Tehran, Iran, Department of Biotechnology, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Meghdad Yeganeh

Affiliation Department of Molecular Systems Biology Biology, Cell Science Research Center, Royan Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Technology, Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research, Tehran, Iran

Faranak Fattahi

Affiliations Department of Stem Cells and Developmental Biology, Cell Science Research Center, Royan Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Technology, Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research, Tehran, Iran, Department of Biotechnology, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Zaniar Ghazizadeh

Affiliation Department of Stem Cells and Developmental Biology, Cell Science Research Center, Royan Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Technology, Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research, Tehran, Iran

Hassan Rassouli

Affiliation Department of Molecular Systems Biology Biology, Cell Science Research Center, Royan Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Technology, Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research, Tehran, Iran

Mehdi Alikhani

Affiliation Department of Molecular Systems Biology Biology, Cell Science Research Center, Royan Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Technology, Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research, Tehran, Iran

Bahareh Adhami Mojarad

Affiliations Department of Stem Cells and Developmental Biology, Cell Science Research Center, Royan Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Technology, Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research, Tehran, Iran, Department of Biotechnology, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Hossein Baharvand

Nasser.Aghdami@RoyanInstitute.Org (NA); Salekdeh@RoyanInstitute.Org (GHS); Baharvand@RoyanInstitute.Org (HB)

Affiliations Department of Stem Cells and Developmental Biology, Cell Science Research Center, Royan Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Technology, Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research, Tehran, Iran, Department of Developmental Biology, University of Science and Culture, Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research, Tehran, Iran

Ghasem Hosseini Salekdeh

Nasser.Aghdami@RoyanInstitute.Org (NA); Salekdeh@RoyanInstitute.Org (GHS); Baharvand@RoyanInstitute.Org (HB)

Affiliations Department of Molecular Systems Biology Biology, Cell Science Research Center, Royan Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Technology, Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research, Tehran, Iran, Department of Systems Biology, Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran, Karaj, Iran

Nasser Aghdami

Nasser.Aghdami@RoyanInstitute.Org (NA); Salekdeh@RoyanInstitute.Org (GHS); Baharvand@RoyanInstitute.Org (HB)

Affiliations Department of Stem Cells and Developmental Biology, Cell Science Research Center, Royan Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Technology, Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research, Tehran, Iran, Department of Regenerative Medicine, Cell Science Research Center, Royan Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Technology, Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GHS NA HB. Performed the experiments: HF MY. Analyzed the data: GHS NA HB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HR BAM FF ZG MA. Wrote the paper: HB GHS NA.