About the Authors
- Cedrick D. Dotson
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Affiliation Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Lan Zhang
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Affiliation Senomyx, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Hong Xu
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Affiliation Senomyx, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Yu-Kyong Shin
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Affiliation National Institute on Aging/NIH, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Stephan Vigues
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Affiliation Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Sandra H. Ott
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Amanda E. T. Elson
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Affiliation Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Hyun Jin Choi
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Affiliation Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Hillary Shaw
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Josephine M. Egan
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Affiliation National Institute on Aging/NIH, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Braxton D. Mitchell
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Xiaodong Li
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Affiliation Senomyx, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Nanette I. Steinle
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Steven D. Munger
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* E-mail: smung001@umaryland.edu
Affiliation Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Competing Interests
Authors Lan Zhang, Hong Xu and Xiaodong Li are employees of Senomyx, Inc., where some of these studies were conducted. Authors Cedrick Dotson, Amanda Elson, Nanette Steinle and Steven Munger are inventors on a provisional patent application related to aspects of this work (No. 60/913,795, filed by the University of Maryland, Baltimore).
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: CDD XL NIS SDM. Performed the experiments: CDD LZ HX YKS SV SO AEE HJC HS JME BM. Analyzed the data: CDD LZ HX YKS SV SO AEE HJC HS JME BM XL NIS SDM. Wrote the paper: CDD SDM. Edited the paper: SDM CDD SV JEM BM XL NIS.