About the Authors

Veedamali S. Subramanian

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America, VAMC, Long Beach, California, United States of America

Abhisek Ghosal

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America, VAMC, Long Beach, California, United States of America

Rubina Kapadia

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America, VAMC, Long Beach, California, United States of America

Svetlana M. Nabokina

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America, VAMC, Long Beach, California, United States of America

Hamid M. Said

hmsaid@uci.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Physiology/Biophysics, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America, VAMC, Long Beach, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VSS AG SMN HMS. Performed the experiments: VSS AG SMN RK. Analyzed the data: VSS AG SMN HMS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VSS AG SMN HMS. Wrote the paper: VSS AG SMN HMS.