About the Authors

Tanya Hartney

Contributed equally to this work with: Tanya Hartney, Rahul Birari

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Rahul Birari

Contributed equally to this work with: Tanya Hartney, Rahul Birari

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Sujatha Venkataraman

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Leah Villegas

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Cardiovascular Pulmonary Research Laboratory, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Maylyn Martinez

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Stephen M. Black

Affiliation Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Kurt R. Stenmark

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Cardiovascular Pulmonary Research Laboratory, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Eva Nozik-Grayck

Eva.Grayck@ucdenver.edu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Cardiovascular Pulmonary Research Laboratory, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EN-G. Performed the experiments: TH RB SV MM LV. Analyzed the data: EN-G TH RB SV SB KS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EN-G KS. Wrote the paper: EN-G TH SV LV. Assisted with editing: SV SB KS RB MM.