About the Authors

Mohammad Hashemi

Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammad Hashemi, Saeid Ghavami

Affiliations Cellular and Molecular Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Zahedan University of Medical Science, Zahedan, Iran

Aliakbar Fazaeli

Affiliation Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Zahedan University of Medical Science, Zahedan, Iran

Saeid Ghavami

Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammad Hashemi, Saeid Ghavami

Affiliations Biology of Breathing Group, Manitoba Institute of Child Health, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Department of Physiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Ebrahim Eskandari-Nasab

Affiliations Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Zahedan University of Medical Science, Zahedan, Iran, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Zahedan University of Medical Science, Zahedan, Iran

Farshid Arbabi

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Zahedan University of Medical Science, Zahedan, Iran

Mohammad Ali Mashhadi

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Zahedan University of Medical Science, Zahedan, Iran

Mohsen Taheri

Affiliation Genetic of Non Communicable Disease Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Science, Zahedan, Iran

Wiem Chaabane

Affiliations Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Integrative Regenerative Med. Center (IGEN), Division of Cell Biology, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

Mayur V. Jain

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Integrative Regenerative Med. Center (IGEN), Division of Cell Biology, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Marek J. Łos

marek.los@liu.se

Affiliations Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Integrative Regenerative Med. Center (IGEN), Division of Cell Biology, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, BioApplications Enterprises, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Competing Interests

ML is a director of BioApplications Enterprise, a company aimed at transferring scientific discoveries from academia to industry. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This fact does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Prepared figure panels explaining the methodology: WC MVJ. Conceived and designed the experiments: MH AF SG MT. Performed the experiments: AF MT. Analyzed the data: MH SG WC MVJ ML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AF EEN FA MAM MT. Wrote the paper: MH SG WC MVJ ML.