Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon; The Cardiovascular, Renal, and Metabolic Diseases Research Center of Excellence, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon.

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon; The Cardiovascular, Renal, and Metabolic Diseases Research Center of Excellence, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon.

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon; The Cardiovascular, Renal, and Metabolic Diseases Research Center of Excellence, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon.

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon; The Cardiovascular, Renal, and Metabolic Diseases Research Center of Excellence, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon.

Clinical Research Institute, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon.

Department of Surgery, George Washington University Hospital, Washington D.C, USA.

Hariri School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon; Center of Innovative Design and Analysis, Biostatistics and Informatics, School of Public Health, Colorado University Anschutz Medical Campus, USA.

Department of Signaling and Cardiovascular Pathophysiology, UMR-S 1180, Inserm, Université Paris-Saclay, France.

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA.

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon; The Cardiovascular, Renal, and Metabolic Diseases Research Center of Excellence, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon; Department of Signaling and Cardiovascular Pathophysiology, UMR-S 1180, Inserm, Université Paris-Saclay, France; Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA. Electronic address: fz15@aub.edu.lb.