About the Authors

Mohammad E. Kabir

Affiliation Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, TX 78229, United States of America

Harpreet Singh

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19102, United States of America

Rong Lu

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Molecular Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095–1778, United States of America

Bjorn Olde

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University, 22184 Lund, Sweden

L. M. Fredrik Leeb-Lundberg

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University, 22184 Lund, Sweden

Jean Chrisostome Bopassa

Bopassa@uthscsa.edu

Affiliation Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, TX 78229, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JCB. Performed the experiments: HS RL. Analyzed the data: MEK JCB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BO LMFL JCB. Wrote the paper: JCB MEK.