About the Authors

Sabrina Bonde

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Kun-Ming Chan

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of General Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Nicholas Zavazava

nicholas-zavazava@uiowa.edu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NZ. Performed the experiments: SB KMC NZ. Analyzed the data: SB NZ. Wrote the paper: NZ.