About the Authors

Veedamali S. Subramanian

Affiliations Departments of Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Long Beach, California, United States of America

Svetlana M. Nabokina

Affiliations Departments of Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Long Beach, California, United States of America

Yaping Lin-Moshier

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Jonathan S. Marchant

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Hamid M. Said

hmsaid@uci.edu

Affiliations Departments of Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Long Beach, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VSS SMN JSM HMS. Performed the experiments: VSS SMN Y-LM. Analyzed the data: VSS SMN JSM HMS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VSS SMN JSM HMS. Wrote the paper: VSS SMN JSM HMS.