About the Authors
- Wei Zhang
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¶‡ Wei Zhang and Riley Hartmann contributed equally to this work as co-first authors.
Affiliation Department of Nutrition Sciences, School of Health Professions, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Riley Hartmann
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¶‡ Wei Zhang and Riley Hartmann contributed equally to this work as co-first authors.
Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
- Hein Min Tun
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Affiliation Department of Animal Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
- Charles O. Elson
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Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, School of Medicine, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Ehsan Khafipour
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* E-mail: garveyt@uab.edu (WTG); Ehsan.Khafipour@umanitoba.ca (EK)
Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, Department of Animal Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
- W. Timothy Garvey
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* E-mail: garveyt@uab.edu (WTG); Ehsan.Khafipour@umanitoba.ca (EK)
Affiliations Department of Nutrition Sciences, School of Health Professions, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: WZ COE WTG. Performed the experiments: WZ RH. Analyzed the data: WZ RH HMT EK COE WTG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EK COE WTG. Wrote the paper: WZ HMT EK COE WTG. Manuscript revise: EK COE WTG.