About the Authors

Misagh Alipour

Affiliation The Novel Drug & Vaccine Delivery Systems Facility, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

Zacharias E. Suntres

Affiliations The Novel Drug & Vaccine Delivery Systems Facility, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, Medical Sciences Division, Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

Majed Halwani

Affiliation The Novel Drug & Vaccine Delivery Systems Facility, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

Ali O. Azghani

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Abdelwahab Omri

aomri@laurentian.ca

Affiliation The Novel Drug & Vaccine Delivery Systems Facility, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MA ZES MH AOA AO. Performed the experiments: MA MH. Analyzed the data: MA ZES MH AOA AO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MA ZES MH AOA AO. Wrote the paper: MA ZES MH AO.