About the Authors

Jinze Xu

jxu@aging.ufl.edu (JU); cleeuwen@aging.ufl.edu (CL)

Affiliation Division of Biology of Aging, Genomics and Biomarkers Core of The Institute on Aging, Department of Aging and Geriatric Research, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Arnold Y. Seo

Affiliation Division of Biology of Aging, Genomics and Biomarkers Core of The Institute on Aging, Department of Aging and Geriatric Research, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Darya A. Vorobyeva

Affiliation Division of Biology of Aging, Genomics and Biomarkers Core of The Institute on Aging, Department of Aging and Geriatric Research, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Christy S. Carter

Affiliation Division of Biology of Aging, Genomics and Biomarkers Core of The Institute on Aging, Department of Aging and Geriatric Research, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Stephen D. Anton

Affiliation Division of Biology of Aging, Genomics and Biomarkers Core of The Institute on Aging, Department of Aging and Geriatric Research, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Angela M. S. Lezza

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology “E. Quagliariello” University of Bari, Bari, Italy

Christiaan Leeuwenburgh

jxu@aging.ufl.edu (JU); cleeuwen@aging.ufl.edu (CL)

Affiliation Division of Biology of Aging, Genomics and Biomarkers Core of The Institute on Aging, Department of Aging and Geriatric Research, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products with the company Pharmaland SA. The authors also declare that the following patent is not relevant to the article: Patent No: US 6,541,265 B2; Date of Patent Apr. 1, 2003. “Method and system to test a substance for inflammatory or oxidant properties”. Inventor: Christiaan Leeuwenburgh. Assignee: University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (United States); Application No. 09/852,194; Filed May 9, 2001.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JX AYS CSC AL CL. Performed the experiments: JX AYS DAV. Analyzed the data: JX AYS DAV CSC SDA AL CL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JX AYS CSC SDA AL CL. Wrote the paper: JX AYS DAV CSC SDA AL CL.