About the Authors

Claire A Batty

Contributed equally to this work with: Claire A Batty, Michael Cauchi, Célia Lourenço, John O Hunter, Claire Turner

Affiliation Dept. Life, Health & Chemical Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Michael Cauchi

Contributed equally to this work with: Claire A Batty, Michael Cauchi, Célia Lourenço, John O Hunter, Claire Turner

Affiliation Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

Célia Lourenço

Contributed equally to this work with: Claire A Batty, Michael Cauchi, Célia Lourenço, John O Hunter, Claire Turner

Affiliation Dept. Life, Health & Chemical Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

John O Hunter

Contributed equally to this work with: Claire A Batty, Michael Cauchi, Célia Lourenço, John O Hunter, Claire Turner

Affiliation Gastroenterology Research Dept., Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Claire Turner

Contributed equally to this work with: Claire A Batty, Michael Cauchi, Célia Lourenço, John O Hunter, Claire Turner

claire.turner@open.ac.uk

Affiliation Dept. Life, Health & Chemical Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CT JOH. Performed the experiments: CAB MC CL. Analyzed the data: CAB MC CL CT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JOH. Wrote the paper: CAB MC JOH CT.