About the Authors

Poyil Pratheeshkumar

Affiliation Graduate Center for Toxicology, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Amit Budhraja

Affiliation Graduate Center for Toxicology, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Young-Ok Son

Affiliation Graduate Center for Toxicology, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Xin Wang

Affiliation Graduate Center for Toxicology, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Zhuo Zhang

Affiliation Graduate Center for Toxicology, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Songze Ding

Affiliation Graduate Center for Toxicology, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Lei Wang

Affiliation Graduate Center for Toxicology, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Andrew Hitron

Affiliation Graduate Center for Toxicology, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Jeong-Chae Lee

Affiliation Graduate Center for Toxicology, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Mei Xu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Gang Chen

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Jia Luo

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Xianglin Shi

xshi5@email.uky.edu

Affiliation Graduate Center for Toxicology, College of Medicine, 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: PP XS. Performed the experiments: PP. Analyzed the data: PP XS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PP AB YOS XW ZZ SD LW AH JCL MX GC JL XS. Wrote the paper: PP.