About the Authors

Margreet R. de Vries

Affiliations Einthoven Laboratory for Experimental Vascular Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Hans W. M. Niessen

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Cardiac Surgery, ICaR-VU, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Clemens W. G. M. Löwik

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Jaap F. Hamming

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

J. Wouter Jukema

Affiliations Einthoven Laboratory for Experimental Vascular Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Paul H. A. Quax

p.h.a.quax@lumc.nl

Affiliations Einthoven Laboratory for Experimental Vascular Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MRdV HWMN JFJ PHAQ. Performed the experiments: MRdV HWMN. Analyzed the data: MRdV HWMN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MRdV CWGML PHAQ. Wrote the paper: MRdV HWMN JFH JWJ PPHAQ.