About the Authors

Duncan J. Campbell

dcampbell@svi.edu.au

Affiliations St. Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research, Fitzroy, Australia, Department of Medicine, The University of Melbourne, St. Vincent’s Health, Fitzroy, Australia

Jithendra B. Somaratne

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, St. Vincent’s Health, Fitzroy, Australia

Alicia J. Jenkins

Affiliation Department of Medicine, The University of Melbourne, St. Vincent’s Health, Fitzroy, Australia

David L. Prior

Affiliations Department of Medicine, The University of Melbourne, St. Vincent’s Health, Fitzroy, Australia, Department of Cardiology, St. Vincent’s Health, Fitzroy, Australia

Michael Yii

Affiliations Department of Surgery, University of Melbourne, St. Vincent’s Health, Fitzroy, Australia, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St. Vincent’s Health, Fitzroy, Australia

James F. Kenny

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St. Vincent’s Health, Fitzroy, Australia

Andrew E. Newcomb

Affiliations Department of Surgery, University of Melbourne, St. Vincent’s Health, Fitzroy, Australia, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St. Vincent’s Health, Fitzroy, Australia

Casper G. Schalkwijk

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Mary Jane Black

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Australia

Darren J. Kelly

Affiliation Department of Medicine, The University of Melbourne, St. Vincent’s Health, Fitzroy, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DJC JBS AJJ DLP MY JFK AEN CGS MJB DJK. Performed the experiments: DJC AJJ DLP MY JFK AEN MJB. Analyzed the data: DJC AJJ DLP JBS MJB DJK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CGS MJB DJK. Wrote the paper: DJC. Revised the manuscript: DJC JBS AJJ DLP MY JFK AEN CGS MJB DJK.