About the Authors

Duraisamy Kempuraj

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Erik C. Twait

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Deborah E. Williard

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Zuobiao Yuan

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

David K. Meyerholz

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Isaac Samuel

Isaac-Samuel@uiowa.edu

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived the mechanistic aspects of study design: IS. Conceived and designed the experiments: IS DK. Performed the experiments: DK DEW ECT ZY DKM IS. Analyzed the data: IS DK ECT DEW ZY DKM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IS DKM. Wrote the paper: IS. Discovered the mouse experimental model of fatal ligation-induced acute pancreatitis: IS.