About the Authors

Sigal Nakav

Affiliation Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Soroka Medical University Center and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Cidio Chaimovitz

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Soroka Medical University Center and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Yuval Sufaro

Affiliation Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Soroka Medical University Center and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Eli C. Lewis

Affiliation Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Soroka Medical University Center and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Gad Shaked

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Soroka Medical University Center and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

David Czeiger

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Soroka Medical University Center and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Moshe Zlotnik

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Soroka Medical University Center and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Amos Douvdevani

amosd@bgu.ac.il

Affiliations Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Soroka Medical University Center and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, Department of Nephrology, Soroka Medical University Center and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EL AD SN CC YS. Performed the experiments: SN YS. Analyzed the data: AD SN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AD GS DC MZ. Wrote the paper: EL AD SN.