About the Authors

Gopal Sivagangabalan

Contributed equally to this work with: Gopal Sivagangabalan, Hamed Nazzari, Olivier Bignolais

Affiliation Toronto General Hospital, Ontario, Canada

Hamed Nazzari

Contributed equally to this work with: Gopal Sivagangabalan, Hamed Nazzari, Olivier Bignolais

Affiliation Toronto General Hospital, Ontario, Canada

Olivier Bignolais

Contributed equally to this work with: Gopal Sivagangabalan, Hamed Nazzari, Olivier Bignolais

Affiliations INSERM, UMR915, l'institut du thorax, Nantes, France, CNRS, ERL3147, Nantes, France, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France

Ange Maguy

Affiliations IHU LIRYC, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Pessac, France, Lab IMB, University Bordeaux 1, Talence, France

Patrice Naud

Affiliations IHU LIRYC, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Pessac, France, Lab IMB, University Bordeaux 1, Talence, France

Talha Farid

Affiliation Toronto General Hospital, Ontario, Canada

Stéphane Massé

Affiliation Toronto General Hospital, Ontario, Canada

Nathalie Gaborit

Affiliations INSERM, UMR915, l'institut du thorax, Nantes, France, CNRS, ERL3147, Nantes, France, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France

Andras Varro

Affiliation University of Szeged and Division of Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary

Krishnakumar Nair

Affiliation Toronto General Hospital, Ontario, Canada

Peter Backx

Affiliation Toronto General Hospital, Ontario, Canada

Edward Vigmond

Affiliations IHU LIRYC, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Pessac, France, Lab IMB, University Bordeaux 1, Talence, France

Stanley Nattel

Affiliation Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) and Université de Montréal Faculty of Medicine, Montreal, Canada

Sophie Demolombe

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations INSERM, UMR915, l'institut du thorax, Nantes, France, CNRS, ERL3147, Nantes, France, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France

Kumaraswamy Nanthakumar

k.nanthakumar@uhn.on.ca

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Toronto General Hospital, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HN GS OB AM PN TF SM NG. Performed the experiments: HN GS OB AM PN TF SM NG EV. Analyzed the data: HN GS OB AM PN TF SM NG AV K. Nair SD SN K. Nanthakumar EV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PB SN AV SD K. Nanthakumar EV. Wrote the paper: HN GS AM K. Nanthakumar.