About the Authors

Djordje Medan

Contributed equally to this work with: Djordje Medan, Sudjit Luanpitpong

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Sudjit Luanpitpong

Contributed equally to this work with: Djordje Medan, Sudjit Luanpitpong

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Neelam Azad

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia, United States of America

Liying Wang

Affiliation Pathology and Physiology Research Branch, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Bing-Hua Jiang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Mary E. Davis

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

John B. Barnett

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Microbiology and Cell Biology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Lan Guo

Affiliation Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Yon Rojanasakul

yrojan@hsc.wvu.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YR DM. Performed the experiments: DM SL NA LW BJ. Analyzed the data: DM MD JB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BJ LG. Wrote the paper: SL YR.