About the Authors

Shakti Singh

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Satish Vedi

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Subodh Kumar Samrat

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Wen Li

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Rakesh Kumar

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Babita Agrawal

bagrawal@ualberta.ca

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS RK BA. Performed the experiments: SS SV SKS WL. Analyzed the data: SS RK BA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WL. Wrote the paper: SS RK BA.