About the Authors

Chhanda Bose

Affiliations Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Department of Internal Medicine, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Sudhir V. Shah

Affiliations Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Department of Internal Medicine, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Oleg K. Karaduta

Affiliation University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Department of Biochemistry, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Gur P. Kaushal

kaushalgurp@uams.edu

Affiliations Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Department of Internal Medicine, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Department of Biochemistry, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. There are no conflict of financial interests.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: GPK SVS. Data curation: GPK CB SVS OKK. Formal analysis: CB OKK. Funding acquisition: GPK SVS. Investigation: CB OKK. Methodology: GPK CB OKK. Project administration: GPK SVS. Resources: CB OKK. Software: CB OKK. Supervision: GPK SVS. Validation: GPK SVS CB. Visualization: GPK. Writing – original draft: GPK SVS. Writing – review & editing: GPK SVS.