About the Authors

Nagavedi Siddaramappa Umapathy

usiddaramappa@georgiahealth.edu

Affiliations Vascular Biology Center, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Elzbieta Kaczmarek

Affiliation Center for Vascular Biology Research, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nooreen Fatteh

Affiliation Vascular Biology Center, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Nana Burns

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Rudolf Lucas

Affiliations Vascular Biology Center, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Kurt R. Stenmark

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Alexander D. Verin

Affiliations Vascular Biology Center, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Evgenia V. Gerasimovskaya

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NSU ADV RL EVG. Performed the experiments: NSU NF EK NB. Analyzed the data: NSU EVG EK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NSU EVG ADV KRS EK. Wrote the paper: NSU EVG EK.