About the Authors

Munekazu Yamakuchi

Munekazu_Yamakuchi@urmc.rochester.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Shusuke Yagi

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Takashi Ito

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Charles J. Lowenstein

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MY CJL. Performed the experiments: MY TI SY. Analyzed the data: MY TI SY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MY TI SY. Wrote the paper: MY CJL.