About the Authors

Ahmed S. Elshikha

Affiliations Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Department of Pharmaceutics, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Sharkia, Egypt

Yuanqing Lu

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Mong-Jen Chen

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Mohammad Akbar

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Leilani Zeumer

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Andrea Ritter

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Hanaa Elghamry

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Sharkia, Egypt

Mahmoud A. Mahdi

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Sharkia, Egypt

Laurence Morel

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Sihong Song

shsong@ufl.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ASE SS LM. Performed the experiments: ASE YL M-JC AR LZ MA. Analyzed the data: ASE HE MM LM SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LM SS. Wrote the paper: ASE LM SS.