About the Authors

Jinhui Shen

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, United States of America

Ashwin Nair

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, United States of America

Ramesh Saxena

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Cheng Cheng Zhang

Affiliation Departments of Physiology and Developmental Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Joseph Borrelli Jr

Affiliation Texas Health Physicians Group, Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital, Arlington, Texas, United States of America

Liping Tang

ltang@uta.edu

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Science and Environmental Biology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LT JS. Performed the experiments: JS. Analyzed the data: JS AN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RS CCZ JB LT. Wrote the paper: JS AN.