About the Authors

Liang Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Liang Wang, Shuai Kang

Affiliations Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, Center for Cerebrovascular Research, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery, Tianjin Fifth Center Hospital, Tianjin, China

Shuai Kang

Contributed equally to this work with: Liang Wang, Shuai Kang

Affiliations Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, Center for Cerebrovascular Research, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Beijing, China

Dingquan Zou

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, Center for Cerebrovascular Research, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Lei Zhan

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, Center for Cerebrovascular Research, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Zhengxi Li

Affiliations Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, Center for Cerebrovascular Research, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Neurology, Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai, China

Wan Zhu

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, Center for Cerebrovascular Research, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Hua Su

hua.su@ucsf.edu

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, Center for Cerebrovascular Research, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HS LW. Performed the experiments: LW SK LZ ZL WZ. Analyzed the data: LW SK DZ HS. Wrote the paper: LW HS.