About the Authors
- Bindu Nanduri
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Contributed equally to this work with: Bindu Nanduri, Ken Pendarvis
* E-mail: bnanduri@cvm.msstate.edu
Affiliation Department of Basic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States of America
- Ken Pendarvis
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Contributed equally to this work with: Bindu Nanduri, Ken Pendarvis
Affiliation Department of Veterinary Science and Microbiology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
- Leslie A. Shack
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Affiliation Department of Basic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States of America
- Ranjit Kumar
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Affiliation Center for Clinical and Translational Science, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Jeffrey W. Clymer
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Affiliation Preclinical Research, Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
- Donna L. Korvick
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Affiliation Preclinical Research, Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
- Shane C. Burgess
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Affiliation College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have the following interests. Ethicon Endo-Surgery Inc., manufacturer of the Harmonic Blade, sponsored this study. Jeffrey W. Clymer and Donna L. Korvick are employed by Ethicon Endo-Surgery,Inc. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: BN KP LAS RK DLK SCB. Performed the experiments: BN KP LAS RK DLK. Analyzed the data: BN KP LAS RK JWC DLK SCB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KP LAS RK. Wrote the paper: BN JWC DLK SCB.