About the Authors

Pedro L. Vera

pvera@health.usf.edu

Affiliations The Bay Pines VA Healthcare System, Research & Development, Bay Pines, Florida, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, University of South Florida, College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Xihai Wang

Affiliations The Bay Pines VA Healthcare System, Research & Development, Bay Pines, Florida, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, University of South Florida, College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Richard J. Bucala

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Katherine L. Meyer-Siegler

Affiliations The Bay Pines VA Healthcare System, Research & Development, Bay Pines, Florida, United States of America, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of South Florida, College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PLLV KLMS. Performed the experiments: PLLV XW KLMS. Analyzed the data: PLLV XW RB KLMS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PLLV KLMS. Wrote the paper: PLLV XW RB KLMS.