About the Authors

Nobuko Tano

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Ha Won Kim

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Muhammad Ashraf

Ashrafm@ucmail.uc.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NT HWK MA. Performed the experiments: NT. Analyzed the data: NT HWK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HWK MA. Wrote the paper: NT HWK MA.