About the Authors

Xiaowen Mao

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Tingting Wang

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Yanan Liu

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Michael G. Irwin

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Jing-song Ou

Affiliation Division of Cardiac Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Xiao-long Liao

Affiliation Division of Cardiac Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Xia Gao

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Yuan Xu

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Kwok F. J. Ng

Affiliations Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Division of Cardiac Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Paul M. Vanhoutte

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Zhengyuan Xia

zyxia@hku.hk

Affiliations Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Shenzhen Institute of Research and Innovation, The University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZX XM. Performed the experiments: XM TW YL XG YX ZX. Analyzed the data: XM ZX MGI KFN PMV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YX JO XL. Wrote the paper: XM ZX.