About the Authors

David M. Ojcius

Contributed equally to this work with: David M. Ojcius, Ardavan Jafari

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Arthur Dugoni School of Dentistry, University of the Pacific, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Ardavan Jafari

Contributed equally to this work with: David M. Ojcius, Ardavan Jafari

Roles Data curation

Affiliation School of Kinesiology and Health Science, Muscle Health Research Centre (MHRC), Faculty of Health, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada

Laxmi Yeruva

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute, Little Rock, AR, United States of America

Christian W. Schindler

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America

Ali A. Abdul-Sater

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

aasater@yorku.ca

Affiliation School of Kinesiology and Health Science, Muscle Health Research Centre (MHRC), Faculty of Health, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.