About the Authors

Spyros Vrakas

Affiliation Gastroenterology Department, Tzaneion General Hospital, Piraeus, Greece

Konstantinos C. Mountzouris

Affiliation Department of Nutritional Physiology and Feeding, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece

George Michalopoulos

Affiliation Gastroenterology Department, Tzaneion General Hospital, Piraeus, Greece

George Karamanolis

Affiliation Gastroenterology Unit, 2nd University Surgical Department Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

George Papatheodoridis

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Laiko Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece

Charalampos Tzathas

Affiliation Gastroenterology Department, Tzaneion General Hospital, Piraeus, Greece

Maria Gazouli

mgazouli@med.uoa.gr

Affiliation Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Laboratory of Biology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MG SV CT GP. Data curation: SV GM GK KM MG GP. Formal analysis: MG SV KM GP. Investigation: SV GM GK KM MG. Methodology: MG SV GK KM GM. Project administration: MG KM. Resources: SV GM GK KM MG CT. Supervision: MG CT. Validation: SV MG KM GK GM. Visualization: SV MG GM GK KM GP. Writing – original draft: SV GM KM MG. Writing – review & editing: SV MG GM GK KM GP.