About the Authors

Nabil Azhar

Contributed equally to this work with: Nabil Azhar, Cordelia Ziraldo

Affiliations Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Center for Inflammation and Regenerative Modeling, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Cordelia Ziraldo

Contributed equally to this work with: Nabil Azhar, Cordelia Ziraldo

Affiliations Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Center for Inflammation and Regenerative Modeling, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Derek Barclay

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

David A. Rudnick

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Washington University of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Robert H. Squires

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yoram Vodovotz

vodovotzy@upmc.edu

Affiliations Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Center for Inflammation and Regenerative Modeling, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

for the Pediatric Acute Liver Failure Study Group

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RHS YV. Performed the experiments: DB RHS. Analyzed the data: NA CZ DAR RHS YV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DAR RHS YV. Wrote the paper: NA CZ DAR RHS YV.