About the Authors

Ricky J. Haywood-Watson

Affiliation Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

John B. Holcomb

Affiliations Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Translational Injury and Research (CeTIR), The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ernest A. Gonzalez

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Zhanglong Peng

Affiliation Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Shibani Pati

Affiliations Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Translational Injury and Research (CeTIR), The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Pyong Woo Park

Affiliation Division of Respiratory Diseases, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

WeiWei Wang

Affiliation Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ana Maria Zaske

Affiliation Center for Translational Injury and Research (CeTIR), The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Tyler Menge

Affiliation Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Rosemary A. Kozar

Rosemary.A.Kozar@uth.tmc.edu

Affiliation Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RH-W RAK EAG JBH PP. Performed the experiments: RH-W ZP AMZ TM SP. Analyzed the data: WW RAK RH-W. Wrote the paper: RAK RH-W SP JBH. Coordinated patient sample collection: EAG.