About the Authors

Sandeep Sheth

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, United States of America

Sarvesh Jajoo

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, United States of America

Tejbeer Kaur

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, United States of America

Debashree Mukherjea

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, United States of America

Kelly Sheehan

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, United States of America

Leonard P. Rybak

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, United States of America

Vickram Ramkumar

vramkumar@siumed.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS SJ VR. Performed the experiments: SS TK DM. Analyzed the data: SS SJ VR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PML KS LR. Wrote the paper: SS SJ VR.