About the Authors

Chetan P. Hans

Contributed equally to this work with: Chetan P. Hans, Yumei Feng

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Yumei Feng

Contributed equally to this work with: Chetan P. Hans, Yumei Feng

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Amarjit S. Naura

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Mourad Zerfaoui

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Bashir M. Rezk

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Huijing Xia

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Alan D. Kaye

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Department of Anesthesiology Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Khalid Matrougui

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Tulane University Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Eric Lazartigues

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

A. Hamid Boulares

hboulr@lsuhsc.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CPH YF EDL HAB. Performed the experiments: CPH YF AN MZ BR HX. Analyzed the data: CPH YF AN HX KM EDL HAB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CPH YF AN EDL HAB. Wrote the paper: CPH YF ADK EDL HAB.