About the Authors

Shannon M. Ruppert

Contributed equally to this work with: Shannon M. Ruppert, Mounir Chehtane

Affiliation From the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Mounir Chehtane

Contributed equally to this work with: Shannon M. Ruppert, Mounir Chehtane

Affiliation From the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Ge Zhang

Affiliation From the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Haiyan Hu

Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Florida, United States of America

Xiaoman Li

Affiliation From the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Annette R. Khaled

akhaled@mail.ucf.edu

Affiliation From the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SMR MC XL ARK. Performed the experiments: SMR MC GZ HH. Analyzed the data: SMR MC XL ARK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XL ARK. Wrote the paper: SMR MC XL ARK.