About the Authors
- Michael J. Herr
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Affiliations The Vascular Biology Center of Excellence and the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America
- Jayaprakash Kotha
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Affiliation CirQuest Labs, LLC, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America
- Nikolaus Hagedorn
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Affiliation The Vascular Biology Center of Excellence and the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America
- Blake Smith
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Affiliation The Vascular Biology Center of Excellence and the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America
- Lisa K. Jennings
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* E-mail: ljennings@uthsc.edu
Affiliations The Vascular Biology Center of Excellence and the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Surgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Joint Program of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and the University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, CirQuest Labs, LLC, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America
Competing Interests
Dr. Jennings’ and Dr. Kotha’s affliliation with CirQuest Labs, LLC does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, and this has been stated in the competing interest of our manuscript.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MJH JK LKJ. Performed the experiments: MJH JK NH BS. Analyzed the data: MJH JK NH BS LKJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LKJ. Wrote the paper: MJH JK LKJ.