About the Authors

Rucha Karnik

Contributed equally to this work with: Rucha Karnik, Melanie J. Ludlow

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Melanie J. Ludlow

Contributed equally to this work with: Rucha Karnik, Melanie J. Ludlow

Affiliations School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Multidisciplinary Cardiovascular Centre, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Nada Abuarab

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Andrew J. Smith

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Matthew E. L. Hardy

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

David J. S. Elliott

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Asipu Sivaprasadarao

a.sivaprasadarao@leeds.ac.uk

Affiliations School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Multidisciplinary Cardiovascular Centre, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS RK MJL AJS. Performed the experiments: RK MJL NA AJS DJSE MELH. Analyzed the data: RK MJL NA AJS. Wrote the manuscript: MJL AS.