About the Authors

Evgeny Shmelkov

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, New York University School of Medicine (NYUSoM), New York, New York, United States of America

Arthur Nadas

Affiliation Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine (NYUSoM), New York, New York, United States of America

James Swetnam

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, New York University School of Medicine (NYUSoM), New York, New York, United States of America

Susan Zolla-Pazner

Affiliations Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine (NYUSoM), New York, New York, United States of America, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Timothy Cardozo

cardot01@nyumc.org

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, New York University School of Medicine (NYUSoM), New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TC. Performed the experiments: ES AN JS. Analyzed the data: ES AN JS SZ-P TC. Wrote the paper: ES SZ-P TC.