About the Authors

Wassim Abou-Kheir

wa12@aub.edu.lb (WAK); gd12@aub.edu.lb (GD)

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Assaad Eid

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Rabih El-Merahbi

Current address: Rudolf Virchow Center for Experimental Biomedicine, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Rebecca Assaf

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Georges Daoud

wa12@aub.edu.lb (WAK); gd12@aub.edu.lb (GD)

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WAK AE GD. Performed the experiments: REM RA. Analyzed the data: WAK AE GD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WAK AE GD. Wrote the paper: GD REM WAK.