About the Authors

Gerald M. Herrera

Affiliations Catamount Research & Development Company, St. Albans, Vermont, United States of America, Med Associates, Inc., St. Albans, Vermont, United States of America

Andrea L. Meredith

ameredith@som.umaryland.edu

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

GMH is a full-time employee of Catamount Research and Development and holds executive appointments in both Catamount Research and Development and Med Associates. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GMH. Performed the experiments: GMH. Analyzed the data: GMH ALM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GMH ALM. Wrote the paper: GMH ALM.