About the Authors

Risaku Fukumoto

Affiliation Radiation Combined Injury Program, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Lynnette H. Cary

Affiliation Radiation Countermeasures Program, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Nikolai V. Gorbunov

Affiliation Radiation Combined Injury Program, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Eric D. Lombardini

Affiliation Veterinary Sciences Department, Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Thomas B. Elliott

Affiliation Radiation Combined Injury Program, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Juliann G. Kiang

juliann.kiang@usuhs.edu

Affiliations Radiation Combined Injury Program, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Radiation Biology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Edited the paper: TBE. Conceived and designed the experiments: JGK. Performed the experiments: JGK RF LHC NVG EDL TBE. Analyzed the data: JGK RF TBE. Wrote the paper: JGK RF.