About the Authors

Jennifer Croden

Contributed equally to this work with: Jennifer Croden, Josue Rodrigues Silva, Wenlong Huang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Ray Rajotte Surgical-Medical Research Institute, Alberta Diabetes Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Josue Rodrigues Silva

Contributed equally to this work with: Jennifer Croden, Josue Rodrigues Silva, Wenlong Huang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Ray Rajotte Surgical-Medical Research Institute, Alberta Diabetes Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Wenlong Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jennifer Croden, Josue Rodrigues Silva, Wenlong Huang

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Ray Rajotte Surgical-Medical Research Institute, Alberta Diabetes Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Division of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China

Nancy Gupta

Roles Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Ray Rajotte Surgical-Medical Research Institute, Alberta Diabetes Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Wen Fu

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine (Neurology) and the Neuroscience Mental Health Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Kaja Matovinovic

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Ray Rajotte Surgical-Medical Research Institute, Alberta Diabetes Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Mazzen Black

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Ray Rajotte Surgical-Medical Research Institute, Alberta Diabetes Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Xian Li

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Kunsong Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Yulian Wu

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Jack Jhamandas

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine (Neurology) and the Neuroscience Mental Health Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Gina R. Rayat

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

grayat@ualberta.ca

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Ray Rajotte Surgical-Medical Research Institute, Alberta Diabetes Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.