About the Authors

Trevor W. R. Lee

tlee@sbgh.mb.ca

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, St. Boniface Hospital, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Stephen Kowalski

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, St. Boniface Hospital, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Kelsey Falk

Affiliation Department of Immunology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Doug Maguire

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, St. Boniface Hospital, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Darren H. Freed

Current address: Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Affiliation Section of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Kent T. HayGlass

Affiliation Department of Immunology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TL SK DM DF KH. Performed the experiments: TL SK DM KF DF. Analyzed the data: TL KF KH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KF KH. Wrote the paper: TL KH.