About the Authors

Maria Guschlbauer

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Guschlbauer, Alexandra C. Maul

Affiliation Center for Experimental Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Alexandra C. Maul

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Guschlbauer, Alexandra C. Maul

Alexandra.maul@uk-koeln.de

Affiliation Center for Experimental Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Xiaowei Yan

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Holger Herff

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Thorsten Annecke

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Anja Sterner-Kock

Affiliation Center for Experimental Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Bernd W. Böttiger

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Daniel C. Schroeder

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DCS HH MG ACM. Performed the experiments: MG ACM DCS XY. Analyzed the data: ACM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TA BWB HH ASK. Wrote the paper: ACM MG DCS.