About the Authors

Mohammed M. Nooh

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, The University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, School of Pharmacy of Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Anjaparavanda P. Naren

Affiliation Department of Physiology, The University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Sung-Jin Kim

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Yang K. Xiang

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Suleiman W. Bahouth

sbahouth@uthsc.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, The University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: APN YKX SWB. Performed the experiments: MNN S-JK. Analyzed the data: MMN SWB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: APN. Wrote the paper: SWB.