About the Authors

Stevan Walkowski

Contributed equally to this work with: Stevan Walkowski, Kenneth Goodrum, Fabian Benencia

Affiliation Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine Department, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Manindra Singh

Affiliation Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Juan Puertas

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Michelle Pate

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Kenneth Goodrum

Contributed equally to this work with: Stevan Walkowski, Kenneth Goodrum, Fabian Benencia

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Fabian Benencia

Contributed equally to this work with: Stevan Walkowski, Kenneth Goodrum, Fabian Benencia

benencia@ohio.edu

Affiliations Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America, Biomedical Engineering Program, Russ College of Engineering and Technology, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America, Diabetes Institute, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FB KG SW. Performed the experiments: SW MS JP KG MP FB. Analyzed the data: FB KG MS JP SW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FB KG SW. Wrote the paper: FB.