*Department of Surgery and Institute for Military Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
†Department of Toxicology, Institute of Nutritional Science, University of Potsdam, Germany
‡Department of Molecular Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
Reprints: Timothy A. Pritts, MD, PhD, Department of Surgery and Institute for Military Medicine, University of Cincinnati, 231 Albert Sabin Way, Mail Location 0558, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0558. E-mail: [email protected].
Funding: This work was supported in part by grant R01 GM107625 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the US National Institutes of Health and DFG grant GU 335/30-1.
A portion of this data was presented in abstract form at the 10th annual meeting of the Academic Surgical Congress, Las Vegas, NV, February 3, 2015.
Disclosure: The authors report no competing financial interests. Concepts and ideas herein are covered by a pending patent application: Serial No. 62/147,748. The author reports no conflicts of interest.