About the Authors

Youssef Aachoui

Affiliation Department of Biology, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America

Swapan K. Ghosh

sghosh@indstate.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

SG hereby declares that although SG, the corresponding author, is a member of Cook Biotech's “Tissue Engineering Research Advisory Committee”, the partial support from Cook Biotech of the authors' study on “Extracellular Matrix from Porcine Small Intestinal Submucosa as Immune Adjuvants” that the authors submitted to PLoS ONE, does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There is no conflict of interest in the study of adjuvanticity. There is no patenting issue either.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YA SG. Performed the experiments: YA SG. Analyzed the data: YA SG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YA SG. Wrote the paper: YA SG.