About the Authors
- Catherine J. M. Stapledon
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Centre for Orthopaedic & Trauma Research, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Helen Tsangari
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Roles Formal analysis, Methodology
Affiliation Centre for Orthopaedic & Trauma Research, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Lucian B. Solomon
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Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Centre for Orthopaedic & Trauma Research, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Orthopaedic and Trauma Service, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- David G. Campbell
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Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Centre for Orthopaedic & Trauma Research, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Wakefield Orthopaedic Clinic, Calvary Wakefield Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Plinio Hurtado
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Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Renal Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Ravi Krishnan
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ravi Krishnan, Gerald J. Atkins
Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: rkrishnan@paradigmbiopharma.com (RK); Gerald.atkins@adelaide.edu.au (GA)
Affiliation Paradigm Biopharmaceuticals Ltd., Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Gerald J. Atkins
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ravi Krishnan, Gerald J. Atkins
Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: rkrishnan@paradigmbiopharma.com (RK); Gerald.atkins@adelaide.edu.au (GA)
Affiliation Centre for Orthopaedic & Trauma Research, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Competing Interests
RK is a full-time employee of Paradigm Biopharmaceuticals Ltd. (https://paradigmbiopharma.com/). As a staff member of Paradigm Biopharmaceuticals Ltd, RK is entitled to long term and short-term incentives. Australian Provisional Patent Application 2018903820 and Australian Provisional Patent Application 2019900326 which are both entitled “Treatment of pain with polysulfated polysaccharides” have been filed by Paradigm Biopharmaceuticals Ltd who is the proprietor of the intellectual property. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. All other authors declare that no competing interests exist.