Immune marker reductions in black and white Americans following sleeve gastrectomy in the short-term phase of surgical weight loss

• Charles L. Phillips,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Program in Pathology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomical Sciences, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

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• Tran T. Le,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Data Science, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0389-2473

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• Seth T. Lirette,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Data Science, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

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• Bradley A. Welch,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neurobiology and Anatomical Sciences, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

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• Sarah C. Glover,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

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• Adam Dungey,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

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• Kenneth D. Vick,

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

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

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• Bernadette E. Grayson

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

  * E-mail: bgrayson@umc.edu

  Affiliation Department of Neurobiology and Anatomical Sciences, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1281-1682

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