About the Authors

Nicholas Arnold

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans Affairs Hospital, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Purushotham Reddy Koppula

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans Affairs Hospital, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Rukhsana Gul

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans Affairs Hospital, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Obesity Research Center, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Christian Luck

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans Affairs Hospital, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Lakshmi Pulakat

pulakatl@health.missouri.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans Affairs Hospital, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NA LP. Performed the experiments: LP NA CL RG PK. Analyzed the data: LP NA CL RG PK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LP. Wrote the paper: LP NA RG CL PK.