About the Authors

Lei Cai

Contributed equally to this work with: Lei Cai, Zhen Wang

lcai8@uky.edu

Affiliations Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Center, Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Zhen Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lei Cai, Zhen Wang

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Center, Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Department of Physiology, Shandong University School of Medicine, Jinan, People’s Republic of China

Ailing Ji

Affiliations Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Center, Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Jason M. Meyer

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Deneys R. van der Westhuyzen

Affiliations Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Center, Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LC DvdW. Performed the experiments: LC ZW AJ JM. Analyzed the data: LC ZW DvdW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LC ZW AJ. Wrote the paper: DvdW LC.