About the Authors

Azariyas A. Challa

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Milica Vukmirovic

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

John Blackmon

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Branko Stefanovic

branko.stefanovic@med.fsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AC MV BS. Performed the experiments: AC MV JB BS. Analyzed the data: AC MV JB BS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AC MV BS. Wrote the paper: AC MV BS. Histological evaluation of fibrosis: JB.