About the Authors

Nosratola D. Vaziri

ndvaziri@uci.edu

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Shu-Man Liu

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Wei Ling Lau

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Mahyar Khazaeli

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Sohrab Nazertehrani

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Seyed H. Farzaneh

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Dorothy A. Kieffer

Affiliations Graduate Group in Nutritional Biology and Department of Nutrition, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America, Obesity & Metabolism Research Unit, USDA-ARS Western Human Nutrition Research Center, Davis, California, United States of America

Sean H. Adams

Affiliations Graduate Group in Nutritional Biology and Department of Nutrition, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America, Obesity & Metabolism Research Unit, USDA-ARS Western Human Nutrition Research Center, Davis, California, United States of America

Roy J. Martin

Affiliation Graduate Group in Nutritional Biology and Department of Nutrition, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NDV SML WLL MK SNT SF DAK SHA RJM. Conceived and designed the experiments: NDV SHA RJM. Performed the experiments: SML WLL MK SNT SF DAK. Analyzed the data: NDV SML. Wrote the paper: NDV.