O’Brien, Michael E.
Chandra, Divay
Wilson, Robert C.
Karoleski, Chad M.
Fuhrman, Carl R.
Leader, Joseph K.
Pu, Jiantao
Zhang, Yingze
Morris, Alison
Nouraie, Seyed
Bon, Jessica
Urban, Zsolt
Sciurba, Frank C.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (UL1TR001857, P50HL084948, R21HL129917, K23HL126912, K24HL123342)
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL128289)
National Institutes of Health (R01HL090648)
Pennsylvania Department of Health (CURE SAP 4100062224)
Article History
Received: 4 January 2019
Accepted: 13 June 2019
First Online: 24 June 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval was granted by the University of Pittsburgh Institutional Review Board, #MOD0612016–25 / IRB0612016. All subjects provided informed consent to take part in this study.
: Explicit consent for publication was obtained from study subjects for the use of representative images in this manuscript.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.