About the Authors

Wojciech Marlicz

Contributed equally to this work with: Wojciech Marlicz, Agata Poniewierska-Baran

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

marlicz@hotmail.com (WM); agata.poniewierska@gmail.com (AP)

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland

Agata Poniewierska-Baran

Contributed equally to this work with: Wojciech Marlicz, Agata Poniewierska-Baran

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

marlicz@hotmail.com (WM); agata.poniewierska@gmail.com (AP)

Affiliations Department of Physiology, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland, Department of Immunology, Faculty of Biology, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland

Sylwia Rzeszotek

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Histology and Embryology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland

Rafał Bartoszewski

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology and Pharmaceutical Botany, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

Karolina Skonieczna-Żydecka

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Human Nutrition, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland

Teresa Starzyńska

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland

Mariusz Z. Ratajczak

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Stem Cell Institute, James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, United States of America, Department of Regenerative Medicine, Warsaw Medical University, Warsaw, Poland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.