About the Authors

Huzoor Akbar

akbar@ohio.edu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Xun Shang

Affiliation Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Rehana Perveen

Current address: Baqai Medical University, Karachi, Pakistan

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Mark Berryman

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Kevin Funk

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America

James F. Johnson

Affiliation Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Narendra N. Tandon

Current address: Cellphire Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Thrombosis Research, Otsuka Maryland Medicinal Laboratories, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Yi Zheng

Affiliation Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HA YZ. Performed the experiments: HA RP XS MB KF JJ. Analyzed the data: HA XS YZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HA NNT YZ. Wrote the paper: HA YZ.