About the Authors

Maarten J. Vosselman

Affiliation Department of Human Biology, School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism – NUTRIM, Maastricht, the Netherlands

Guy H. E. J. Vijgen

Affiliation Department of Surgery (G.V.), Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Boris R. M. Kingma

Affiliation Department of Human Biology, School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism – NUTRIM, Maastricht, the Netherlands

Boudewijn Brans

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center+, Maastricht, the Netherlands

Wouter D. van Marken Lichtenbelt

markenlichtenbelt@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Affiliation Department of Human Biology, School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism – NUTRIM, Maastricht, the Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MJV GHEJV BRMK BB WDvML. Performed the experiments: MJV GHEJV BRMK. Analyzed the data: MJV GHEJV BRMK WDvML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BB WDvML. Wrote the paper: MJV GHEJV BRMK BB WDvML.