About the Authors

Hassina Massudi

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Australasian Research Institute, Sydney Adventist Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Ross Grant

r.grant@unsw.edu.au

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Australasian Research Institute, Sydney Adventist Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Nady Braidy

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Faculty of Medicine, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Jade Guest

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Australasian Research Institute, Sydney Adventist Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Bruce Farnsworth

Affiliation Australasian Research Institute, Sydney Adventist Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Gilles J. Guillemin

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, St Vincent's Centre for Applied Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: R. Grant and G. Guillemin are directors of a new non-listed start-up Biotech company called NADLife. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HM RG NB. Performed the experiments: HM NB. Analyzed the data: HM RG NB GJG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RG JG BF GJG. Wrote the paper: HM RG NB.