About the Authors

Jianming Wu

jmwu@umn.edu

Affiliations Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Rui Lin

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Jinhai Huang

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Weihua Guan

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

William S. Oetting

Affiliation Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

P. Sriramarao

Affiliations Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Malcolm N. Blumenthal

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JW WSO PS MNB. Performed the experiments: JW RL JH WG WSO MNB. Analyzed the data: JW RL JH WG WSO PS MNB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WG WSO MNB. Wrote the paper: JW WG WSO MNB.