About the Authors

Felix Nau Jr

Contributed equally to this work with: Felix Nau Jr, Bangning Yu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Bangning Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Felix Nau Jr, Bangning Yu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

David Martin

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Charles D. Nichols

cnich1@lsuhsc.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BY FJN CDN. Performed the experiments: BY FJN DM CDN. Analyzed the data: BY FJN DM CDN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CDN. Wrote the paper: CDN.