About the Authors

Hiroyuki Nojima

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Takanori Konishi

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Christopher M. Freeman

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Rebecca M. Schuster

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Lukasz Japtok

Affiliation Institute of Nutritional Science, University of Potsdam, Nuthetal, Germany

Burkhard Kleuser

Affiliation Institute of Nutritional Science, University of Potsdam, Nuthetal, Germany

Michael J. Edwards

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Erich Gulbins

Affiliations Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Alex B. Lentsch

alex.lentsch@uc.edu

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: HN MJE EG ABL. Data curation: HN TK LJ BK EG. Formal analysis: HN BK EG ABL. Funding acquisition: ABL. Investigation: HN TK CMF RMS LJ. Methodology: HN TK CMF RMS LJ BK EG ABL. Project administration: ABL. Resources: BK MJE EG ABL. Supervision: ABL. Validation: HN TK RMS LJ BK EG ABL. Writing – original draft: HN ABL. Writing – review & editing: HN TK CMF RMS LJ BK MJE EG ABL.