About the Authors

Juquan Song

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

jusong@utmb.edu

Affiliation Department of Surgery, the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Amina EI Ayadi

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

Affiliation Department of Surgery, the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Victoria G. Rontoyanni

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Steven E. Wolf

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Surgery, the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.