About the Authors

Bina Joe

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Toledo College of Medicine, Toledo, Ohio, United States of America

Anitha Nagaraju

Affiliation Department of Lipid Science and Traditional Foods, Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, Karnataka, India

Lalitha R. Gowda

Affiliation Department of Protein Chemistry and Technology, Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, Karnataka, India

Venkatesha Basrur

belurlokesh821@gmail.com (BRL); vbasrur@med.umich.edu (VB)

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Toledo College of Medicine, Toledo, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Belur R. Lokesh

belurlokesh821@gmail.com (BRL); vbasrur@med.umich.edu (VB)

Affiliation Department of Lipid Science and Traditional Foods, Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, Karnataka, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BJ BRL VB. Performed the experiments: VB AN LRG. Analyzed the data: VB BRL LRG AN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BRL VB BJ LRG. Wrote the paper: BJ BRL VB.