About the Authors

Marshall B. Elam

Contributed equally to this work with: Marshall B. Elam, Rajendra Raghow

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

melam@uthsc.edu (MBE); rraghow@uthsc.edu (RR)

Affiliations Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center-Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Gipsy Majumdar

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center-Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Khyobeni Mozhui

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Ivan C. Gerling

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center-Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Santiago R. Vera

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center-Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Hannah Fish-Trotter

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Current address: Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America.

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Robert W. Williams

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Genomics and Informatics, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Richard D. Childress

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center-Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Rajendra Raghow

Contributed equally to this work with: Marshall B. Elam, Rajendra Raghow

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

melam@uthsc.edu (MBE); rraghow@uthsc.edu (RR)

Affiliations Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center-Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.