About the Authors

Mourad Ogbi

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology and Program in Regenerative Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Ijeoma Obi

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology and Program in Regenerative Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

John A. Johnson

jjohnson@gru.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology and Program in Regenerative Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MO JAJ IO. Performed the experiments: MO JAJ IO. Analyzed the data: MO JAJ IO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JAJ. Wrote the paper: MO JAJ IO.