About the Authors

Anna Goc

Affiliations Clinical and Experimental Therapeutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Maha Abdalla

Affiliations Clinical and Experimental Therapeutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Ahmad Al-Azayzih

Affiliations Clinical and Experimental Therapeutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Payaningal R. Somanath

sshenoy@georgiahealth.edu

Affiliations Clinical and Experimental Therapeutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AG PRS. Performed the experiments: AG MA AA. Analyzed the data: AG MA AA PRS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AG PRS. Wrote the paper: AG MA AA PRS.