About the Authors

Ehud Zigmond

chenv@tasmc.health.gov.il (CV); ehudz@tasmc.health.gov.il (EZ)

Affiliations The Research Center for Digestive Tract and Liver Diseases, Sourasky Medical Center and the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Zamir Halpern

Affiliation The Research Center for Digestive Tract and Liver Diseases, Sourasky Medical Center and the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Eran Elinav

Affiliation The Research Center for Digestive Tract and Liver Diseases, Sourasky Medical Center and the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Eli Brazowski

Affiliation The Research Center for Digestive Tract and Liver Diseases, Sourasky Medical Center and the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Steffen Jung

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Chen Varol

chenv@tasmc.health.gov.il (CV); ehudz@tasmc.health.gov.il (EZ)

Affiliation The Research Center for Digestive Tract and Liver Diseases, Sourasky Medical Center and the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EZ ZH EE EB SJ CV. Performed the experiments: EZ CV. Analyzed the data: EZ ZH EB CV. Wrote the paper: EZ ZH EE EB SJ CV.