About the Authors

Clifford Lin

Affiliation Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Yifan Yuan

Affiliation Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

David W. Courtman

dcourtman@ohri.ca

Affiliation Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CL DWC. Performed the experiments: CL. Analyzed the data: CL YY DWC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CL DWC. Wrote the paper: YY DWC.