[1] Meharry Med Coll, Sch Grad Studies, Nashville, TN 37208 USA
[2] Nashville Vet Affairs Med Ctr, Res Serv, Nashville, TN 37212 USA
[3] Univ Louisville, Dept Cardiovasc & Thorac Surg, Louisville, KY USA
[4] Univ Louisville, Cardiovasc Innovat Inst, Louisville, KY USA
[5] UC Louvain, Inst Expt & Clin Res, Pole Cardiovasc Res, Brussels, Belgium
[6] WEL Res Inst, WELBIO Dept, Wavre, Belgium
[7] Med Univ South Carolina, Dept Med, Div Cardiol, Charleston, SC USA
[8] Ralph HJohnson Dept Vet Affairs Med Ctr, Charleston, SC USA
[9] Univ Essen Gesamthsch, Inst Pathophysiol, West German Heart & Vasc Ctr, Med Sch, Essen, Germany