About the Authors

Bin Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Bin Zhang, Norah Alruwaili

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

Current address: Department of GI Surgery, Renji Hospital, Shanghai, China

Affiliation Departments of Physiology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

Norah Alruwaili

Contributed equally to this work with: Bin Zhang, Norah Alruwaili

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

Affiliation Departments of Physiology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

Sharath Kandhi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departments of Physiology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

Wensheng Deng

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of General Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Affiliation Departments of Physiology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

An Huang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departments of Physiology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

Michael S. Wolin

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departments of Physiology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

Dong Sun

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

dong_sun@nymc.edu

Affiliation Departments of Physiology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.