About the Authors

Milos R. Ljubisavljevic

milos@uaeu.ac.ae

Affiliation Department of Physiology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al Ain, UAE

Asma Javid

Affiliation Department of Physiology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al Ain, UAE

Joji Oommen

Affiliation Department of Physiology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al Ain, UAE

Khatija Parekh

Affiliation Department of Physiology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al Ain, UAE

Nico Nagelkerke

Affiliations Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi, Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al Ain, UAE

Safa Shehab

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al Ain, UAE

Thomas E. Adrian

Affiliation Department of Physiology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al Ain, UAE

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MRL TEA. Performed the experiments: AJ JO KP SS MRL. Analyzed the data: JO MRL SS NN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MRL SS. Wrote the paper: MRL TEA JO AJ SS NN.