**Author details**

Haitham Abdelmoaty1 , Timothy G. Hammond2,3,4,5,6, Bobby L. Wilson1,7, Holly H. Birdsall4,8 and Jade Q. Clement1,7\*

\*Address all correspondence to: clement\_jq@tsu.edu

1 Environmental Toxicology Graduate Program, Texas Southern University, TX, USA

2 Durham VA Medical Center, Research and Development Service, NC, USA

3 Nephrology Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA

4 Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Research and Development, Veterans Health Care Administration, Washington, DC, USA

5 Washington, DC, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA

6 Nephrology Section, Department of Internal Medicine, George Washington School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA

7 Chemistry Department, Texas Southern University, TX, USA

8 Baylor College of Medicine, Departments of Otolaryngology, Immunology, and Psychiatry, Houston, TX, USA
