About the Authors

Don C. Rockey

rockey@musc.edu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Nate Weymouth

Affiliation Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Zengdun Shi

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DR. Performed the experiments: DR NW ZS. Analyzed the data: DR NW ZS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DR NW ZS. Wrote the paper: DR.