About the Authors

Rola Barhoumi

rmouneimne@cvm.tamu.edu

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Youssef Mouneimne

Affiliation KAS CRSL, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Robert S. Chapkin

Affiliations Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Department of Nutrition and Food Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Robert C. Burghardt

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RB RCB YM. Performed the experiments: RB. Analyzed the data: RB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RCB RSC. Wrote the paper: RB RCB.