About the Authors

Nathan Y. Weltman

Contributed equally to this work with: Nathan Y. Weltman, Dajun Wang

Affiliation Department of Basic Biomedical Sciences, Sanford School of Medicine at the University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States of America

Dajun Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Nathan Y. Weltman, Dajun Wang

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Center, Sanford Research/University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States of America

Rebecca A. Redetzke

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Center, Sanford Research/University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States of America

A. Martin Gerdes

agerdes@nyit.edu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, New York College of Osteopathic Medicine at New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NYW DW AMG. Performed the experiments: NYW DW RAR. Analyzed the data: NYW DW AMG. Wrote the paper: NYW. Edited and revised manuscript: AMG.