About the Authors

Misagh Alipour

Contributed equally to this work with: Misagh Alipour, Yuefei Lou

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Centre of Excellence for Gastrointestinal Inflammation and Immunity Research (CEGIIR), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Yuefei Lou

Contributed equally to this work with: Misagh Alipour, Yuefei Lou

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Centre of Excellence for Gastrointestinal Inflammation and Immunity Research (CEGIIR), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Daniel Zimmerman

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Centre of Excellence for Gastrointestinal Inflammation and Immunity Research (CEGIIR), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Michael W. Bording-Jorgensen

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Centre of Excellence for Gastrointestinal Inflammation and Immunity Research (CEGIIR), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Consolato Sergi

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Julia J. Liu

Affiliations Centre of Excellence for Gastrointestinal Inflammation and Immunity Research (CEGIIR), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Eytan Wine

wine@ualberta.ca

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Centre of Excellence for Gastrointestinal Inflammation and Immunity Research (CEGIIR), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MA YL DZ MWB-J CS JJL EW. Performed the experiments: MA YL. Analyzed the data: MA YL DZ MWB-J CS JJL EW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CS JJL EW. Wrote the paper: MA EW. Histology scoring: CS.