About the Authors
- Youfeng Yang
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Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Zehong Cao
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Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Ling Tian
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Affiliation Department of Nutrition Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- W. Timothy Garvey
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Affiliations Department of Nutrition Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, The Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Guangjie Cheng
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* E-mail: gjcheng@uab.edu
Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: GC YY LT. Performed the experiments: YY ZC LT. Analyzed the data: GC YY LT WTG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YY ZC LT WTG GC. Wrote the paper: GC YY LT WTG.