About the Authors

Ken Abe

Contributed equally to this work with: Ken Abe, Lingling Zhao

Affiliation Albany Medical College, The Center for Cardiovascular Sciences, Albany, New York, United States of America

Lingling Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Ken Abe, Lingling Zhao

Affiliation Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Jonsson Engineering Center Troy, New York, United States of America

Ammasi Periasamy

Affiliation W. M. Keck Center for Cellular Imaging, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Xavier Intes

Affiliation Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Jonsson Engineering Center Troy, New York, United States of America

Margarida Barroso

barrosm@mail.amc.edu

Affiliation Albany Medical College, The Center for Cardiovascular Sciences, Albany, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KA LZ XI MB. Performed the experiments: KA LZ. Analyzed the data: KA LZ AP XI MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KA LZ AP XI MB. Wrote the paper: KA LZ.