About the Authors

Evelyn C. Nieves Torres

Contributed equally to this work with: Evelyn C. Nieves Torres, Binxia Yang

Affiliation Vascular and Interventional Radiology Translational Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Binxia Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Evelyn C. Nieves Torres, Binxia Yang

Affiliation Vascular and Interventional Radiology Translational Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Rajiv Janardhanan

Affiliation Vascular and Interventional Radiology Translational Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Akshaar Brahmbhatt

Affiliation Vascular and Interventional Radiology Translational Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Ed Leof

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Debabrata Mukhopadhyay

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Sanjay Misra

misra.sanjay@mayo.edu

Affiliations Vascular and Interventional Radiology Translational Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SM DM ENT BY RJ. Performed the experiments: BY AB RJ ENT. Analyzed the data: BY AB RJ DM EL ENT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BY AB RJ ENT. Wrote the paper: BY AB RJ.