About the Authors

Dustin L. Cooper

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Gatton College of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America

Derek E. Murrell

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Gatton College of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America

Christopher M. Conder

Affiliation Gatton College of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America

Victoria E. Palau

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Gatton College of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America

Grace E. Campbell

Affiliation Gatton College of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America

Shaun P. Lynch

Affiliation Gatton College of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America

James W. Denham

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America

Angela V. Hanley

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Gatton College of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America

Kenny W. Bullins

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Gatton College of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America

Peter C. Panus

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Gatton College of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America

Krishna Singh

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America

Sam Harirforoosh

harirfor@etsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Gatton College of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SH. Performed the experiments: DLC DEM CMC VEP GEC SPL JWD AVH KWB. Analyzed the data: SH DLC DEM VEP PCP JWD KS. Wrote the paper: DLC DEM CMC GEC SH.