About the Authors

Ana María Gutiérrez

agmontes@um.es

Affiliation Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery, Regional Campus of International Excellence “Campus Mare Nostrum”, University of Murcia, Espinardo, Murcia, Spain

Ernesto De La Cruz-Sánchez

Affiliation Department of Physical Activity and Sport, Regional Campus of International Excellence “Campus Mare Nostrum”, University of Murcia, San Javier, Murcia, Spain

Ana Montes

Affiliation Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery, Regional Campus of International Excellence “Campus Mare Nostrum”, University of Murcia, Espinardo, Murcia, Spain

Juan Sotillo

Affiliation Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery, Regional Campus of International Excellence “Campus Mare Nostrum”, University of Murcia, Espinardo, Murcia, Spain

Cándido Gutiérrez-Panizo

Affiliation Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery, Regional Campus of International Excellence “Campus Mare Nostrum”, University of Murcia, Espinardo, Murcia, Spain

Pablo Fuentes

Affiliation Cefu S.A., Alhama de Murcia, Murcia, Spain

Pedro Luis Tornel

Affiliation Clinical Analysis Service, University Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca, El Palmar, Murcia, Spain

Juan Cabezas-Herrera

Affiliation Molecular Therapy and Biomarkers Research Group, Clinical Analysis Service, University Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca, IMIB-Arrixaca, El Palmar, Murcia, Spain

Competing Interests

The author from the company CefuS.A. [PF] has been collaborated with the corresponding author in research activities for long time as collaborator of the research group and performed the PhD Thesis in the same research group as the corresponding author. However, no conflict of interest between the company and researchers are influencing the manuscript, the company collaborate in research by allowing researchers to obtain clinical samples from porcine production without any other interest. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AMG JCH. Formal analysis: EDCS. Funding acquisition: AMG JCH PLT EDCS CGP. Investigation: AMG AM CG JS. Methodology: AMG. Project administration: AMG. Resources: AMG JCH PF PLT. Supervision: AMG. Validation: AMG EDCS. Writing – original draft: AMG EDCS. Writing – review & editing: AMG EDCS AM JS CGP PF PLT JCH.