About the Authors

Alexey Solovyev

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Qi Mi

qim3@pitt.edu (QM); vodovotzy@upmc.edu (YV)

Affiliations Department of Sports Medicine and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Center for Inflammation and Regenerative Modeling, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yi-Ting Tzen

Affiliation Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

David Brienza

Affiliation Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yoram Vodovotz

qim3@pitt.edu (QM); vodovotzy@upmc.edu (YV)

Affiliations Center for Inflammation and Regenerative Modeling, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS QM YTT DB YV. Performed the experiments: AS QM YTT. Analyzed the data: AS QM. Wrote the paper: AS QM YTT YV.