About the Authors

Efrat Ashkenazi

Affiliation Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Be’er Sheva, Israel

Boris M. Baranovski

Affiliation Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Be’er Sheva, Israel

Galit Shahaf

Affiliation Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Be’er Sheva, Israel

Eli C Lewis

lewis@bgu.ac.il

Affiliation Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Be’er Sheva, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EA BMB ECL GS. Performed the experiments: EA BMB ECL GS. Analyzed the data: EA BMB ECL GS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ECL. Wrote the paper: EA BMB ECL GS.