About the Authors

Taha Salim

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Cheryl L. Sershen

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Elebeoba E. May

eemay@central.uh.edu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EEM TS. Performed the experiments: TS. Analyzed the data: TS CLS EEM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TS CLS. Wrote the paper: TS EEM.