About the Authors

Zeineb Es-Salah-Lamoureux

Contributed equally to this work with: Zeineb Es-Salah-Lamoureux, Robert Fougere

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Robert Fougere

Contributed equally to this work with: Zeineb Es-Salah-Lamoureux, Robert Fougere

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Ping Yu Xiong

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Gail A. Robertson

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

David Fedida

fedida@interchange.ubc.ca

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZESL RF DF. Performed the experiments: ZESL RF PYX. Analyzed the data: ZESL RF PYX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DF. Wrote the paper: ZESL GR DF.