About the Authors

Guruprasad Kuntamallappanavar

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Ligia Toro

Affiliation Departments of Anesthesiology and of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Alex M. Dopico

adopico@uthsc.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

Alex Dopico is currently a PLOS ONE Editorial Board Member. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE Editorial policies and criteria.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GK AMD. Performed the experiments: GK. Analyzed the data: GK AMD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LT. Wrote the paper: GK AMD. Edited the manuscript: LT.