About the Authors

Xiaowu Sheng

Affiliations Institute for Neurophysiology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Department of Physiology and German-Chinese Stem Cell Center, Tongji, Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Michael Reppel

Affiliation Medical Clinic II, University of Luebeck, Germany

Filomain Nguemo

Affiliation Institute for Neurophysiology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Farooq Ibrahem Mohammad

Affiliations Institute for Neurophysiology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Biotechnology Research Center, Al Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq

Alexey Kuzmenkin

Affiliation Institute for Neurophysiology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Jürgen Hescheler

Affiliation Institute for Neurophysiology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Kurt Pfannkuche

kurt.pfannkuche@uni-koeln.de

Affiliations Institute for Neurophysiology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Clinic and Polyclinic for Paedriatric Cardiology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XS MR AK KP. Performed the experiments: XS FIM KP. Analyzed the data: XS MR FN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AK JH KP. Wrote the paper: MR FN KP.