About the Authors

Souade Ikhlef

Affiliation Research Centre on Aging, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

Hicham Berrougui

Affiliations Research Centre on Aging, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, Department of Biology, Polydisciplinary Faculty, University Sultan Moulay Slimane, Beni Mellal, Morocco

Olivier Kamtchueng Simo

Affiliation Research Centre on Aging, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

Echarki Zerif

Affiliation Department of Pediatric, Immunology Division, Centre de Recherche Clinique CHUS, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

Abdelouahed Khalil

a.khalil@usherbrooke.ca

Affiliations Research Centre on Aging, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, Department of Medicine, Geriatrics Service, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AK SI HB. Data curation: AK SI HB. Formal analysis: AK SI HB. Funding acquisition: AK. Investigation: SI HB EZ OKS. Methodology: AK SI HB EZ OKS. Project administration: AK. Resources: AK SI HB. Supervision: AK. Validation: SI HB EZ OKS. Visualization: AK SI HB. Writing – original draft: SI HB. Writing – review & editing: AK.