About the Authors

Richdeep S. Gill

Contributed equally to this work with: Richdeep S. Gill, Tze-Fun Lee

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Tze-Fun Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Richdeep S. Gill, Tze-Fun Lee

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Jiang-Qin Liu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Hetal Chaudhary

Affiliation Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Dion R. Brocks

Affiliation Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

David L. Bigam

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Po-Yin Cheung

poyin@ualberta.ca

Affiliations Department of Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RSG DLB PYC. Performed the experiments: RSG TFL JQL HC. Analyzed the data: RSG TFL JQL HC DRB DLB PYC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DRB DLB PYC. Wrote the paper: RSG TFL JQL HC DRB DLB PYC.