About the Authors

Annadora J. Bruce-Keller

annadora.bruce-keller@pbrc.edu

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, LA, United States of America

Sun-Ok Fernandez-Kim

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, LA, United States of America

R. Leigh Townsend

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, LA, United States of America

Claudia Kruger

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, LA, United States of America

Richard Carmouche

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, LA, United States of America

Susan Newman

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, LA, United States of America

J. Michael Salbaum

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, LA, United States of America

Hans-Rudolf Berthoud

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, LA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AJB-K JMS HRB. Data curation: CK RC SN. Formal analysis: SN JMS. Funding acquisition: AJB-K JMS HRB. Investigation: AJB-K SOF-K RLT. Methodology: CK RC SN JMS. Project administration: AJB-K JMS HRB. Resources: AJB-K JMS HRB. Software: JMS. Supervision: AJB-K JMS HRB. Validation: AJB-K JMS HRB. Visualization: AJB-K JMS HRB. Writing – original draft: AJB-K JMS. Writing – review & editing: AJB-K JMS HRB.