About the Authors

Mo Dan

Contributed equally to this work with: Mo Dan, David B. Cochran

Current address: National Center for Safety Evaluation of Drugs, National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Beijing, China

Affiliations Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Graduate Center for Toxicology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

David B. Cochran

Contributed equally to this work with: Mo Dan, David B. Cochran

Affiliation Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Robert A. Yokel

ryokel@email.uky.edu

Affiliations Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Graduate Center for Toxicology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Thomas D. Dziubla

Affiliation Chemical and Materials Engineering, 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: MD RAY DBC TDD. Performed the experiments: MD DBC. Analyzed the data: MD DBC RAY TDD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MD DBC. Wrote the paper: MD DBC.