About the Authors

John Bienenstock

bienens@mcmaster.ca

Affiliations McMaster Brain-Body Institute at St Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Rachael H. Buck

Affiliation Abbott Nutrition, a Division of Abbott Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Hawley Linke

Affiliation Abbott Nutrition, a Division of Abbott Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Paul Forsythe

Affiliations Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Andrew M. Stanisz

Affiliation McMaster Brain-Body Institute at St Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Wolfgang A. Kunze

Affiliations McMaster Brain-Body Institute at St Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Farncombe Family Digestive Health Institute, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

This study was supported in part by a research grant from Abbott Nutrition who had no involvement in the conduct or execution of the project or the analysis of the data. The authors declare this commercial funding does not alter their adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JB WAK PF. Performed the experiments: AMS. Analyzed the data: WAK AMS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RHB HL. Wrote the manuscript: JB WAK.