About the Authors

Shibani Pati

shibani.pati@uth.tmc.edu

Affiliation Department of Surgery and Center for Translational Injury Research, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Michael H. Gerber

Affiliation Department of Surgery and Center for Translational Injury Research, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Tyler D. Menge

Affiliation Department of Surgery and Center for Translational Injury Research, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Kathryn A. Wataha

Affiliation Department of Surgery and Center for Translational Injury Research, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yuhai Zhao

Affiliation Department of Surgery and Center for Translational Injury Research, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

John Adam Baumgartner

Affiliation Department of Surgery and Center for Translational Injury Research, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jing Zhao

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Phillip A. Letourneau

Affiliation Department of Surgery and Center for Translational Injury Research, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Maria P. Huby

Affiliation Department of Surgery and Center for Translational Injury Research, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Lisa A. Baer

Affiliation Department of Surgery and Center for Translational Injury Research, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

John R. Salsbury

Affiliation Department of Surgery and Center for Translational Injury Research, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Rosemary A. Kozar

Affiliation Department of Surgery and Center for Translational Injury Research, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Charles E. Wade

Affiliation Department of Surgery and Center for Translational Injury Research, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Peter A. Walker

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Pramod K. Dash

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Charles S. Cox Jr.

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Marie-Francoise Doursout

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

John B. Holcomb

Affiliation Department of Surgery and Center for Translational Injury Research, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SP TDM JAB JZ PAL RAK CEW PKD CSC M-FD JBH. Performed the experiments: MHG TDM KAW YZ JAB JZ PAL MPH LAB JRS PAW M-FD. Analyzed the data: SP CEW CSC JBH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SP RAK CEW PKD CSC JBH. Wrote the paper: SP RAK PKD CSC JBH.