About the Authors

Marion Faigle

Contributed equally to this work with: Marion Faigle, Jessica Seessle

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Tübingen University Hospital, Tübingen, Germany

Jessica Seessle

Contributed equally to this work with: Marion Faigle, Jessica Seessle

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Tübingen University Hospital, Tübingen, Germany

Stephanie Zug

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Tübingen University Hospital, Tübingen, Germany

Karim C. El Kasmi

Affiliation Mucosal Inflammation Program, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Colorado Health Science Center, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Holger K. Eltzschig

holger.eltzschig@uchsc.edu

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Tübingen University Hospital, Tübingen, Germany, Mucosal Inflammation Program, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Colorado Health Science Center, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MF JS HKE. Performed the experiments: MF JS SZ KCEK HKE. Analyzed the data: MF JS SZ KCEK HKE. Wrote the paper: MF JS KCEK HKE.