About the Authors

Rehana Perveen

Current address: Baqai Medical University, Karachi, Pakistan

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

Kevin Funk

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

Jean Thuma

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

Shelli Wulf Ridge

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

Yanyan Cao

Current address: Metabolic Disease Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, The National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Jan Willem N. Akkerman

Affiliation Thrombosis Treatment and Prevention, Department of Clinical Chemistry and Haematology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Xiaozhuo Chen

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America, Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Huzoor Akbar

akbar@ohio.edu

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America, Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RP HA. Performed the experiments: RP KF JT SWR YC. Analyzed the data: RP KF JT SWR YC XC HA JWNA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XC JWNA. Wrote the paper: RP HA.