About the Authors

Joanna M. Poczobutt

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Miguel Gijon

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Jay Amin

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Dwight Hanson

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Howard Li

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Deandra Walker

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Mary Weiser-Evans

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Xian Lu

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Robert C. Murphy

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Raphael A. Nemenoff

Raphael.Nemenoff@ucdenver.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JP MG RM MW RAN. Performed the experiments: JP MG JA DH HL DW. Analyzed the data: JP MG XL. Wrote the paper: JP MG MW RAN.