About the Authors

Christian I. Schwer

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Cornelius Lehane

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Timo Guelzow

Affiliation Department of General Neurosurgery, Cellular Neurophysiology, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Simone Zenker

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Karl M. Strosing

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Sashko Spassov

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Anika Erxleben

Affiliation Pharmaceutical Bioinformatics, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Bernd Heimrich

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Hartmut Buerkle

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Matjaz Humar

matjaz.humar@uniklinik-freiburg.de

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MH. Performed the experiments: CIS CL TG SZ SS MH. Analyzed the data: CIS KMS AE MH. Wrote the paper: BH HB MH.