About the Authors

Ismayil Ahmet

Affiliation Laboratory of Cardiovascular Science and Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Edward Spangler

Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental Gerontology, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Barbara Shukitt-Hale

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

James A. Joseph

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Donald K. Ingram

Affiliations Laboratory of Experimental Gerontology, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Nutritional Neuroscience and Aging Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Mark Talan

talanm@grc.nia.nih.gov

Affiliation Laboratory of Cardiovascular Science and Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IA BSH JJ DKI MT. Performed the experiments: IA ES. Analyzed the data: ES. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MT. Wrote the paper: BSH DKI MT.