About the Authors

Nirmala Parajuli

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Lia H. Campbell

Affiliation Cell & Tissue Systems, Inc., North Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Akira Marine

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Kelvin G. M. Brockbank

Affiliations Cell & Tissue Systems, Inc., North Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America, Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, South Carolina, United States of America

Lee Ann MacMillan-Crow

lmcrow@uams.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. MacMillan-Crow has a Provisional U.S. Patent Application #PCT/US2010/057246– Mito Q Organ cold storage composition and methods of use. PCT filed 11/18/2012, WO 201/063130 A1 published 05/26/2011. Dr. Campbell is an employee and Dr. Brockbank is both an employee and owner of Cell & Tissue Systems, Inc. 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: LAMC LHC KGMB. Performed the experiments: NP AM LHC. Analyzed the data: NP LAMC. Wrote the paper: NP AM LHC KGMB LAMC.