About the Authors

Michael Koeppen

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Koeppen, Tobias Eckle

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

Tobias Eckle

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Koeppen, Tobias Eckle

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

Holger K. Eltzschig

holger.eltzschig@uchsc.edu

Affiliations Mucosal Inflammation Program, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Tübingen University Hospital, Tübingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MK TE HKE. Performed the experiments: MK TE. Analyzed the data: MK TE HKE. Wrote the paper: MK HKE.