About the Authors

Rolf Spirig

Contributed equally to this work with: Rolf Spirig, Siamak Djafarzadeh

Affiliation Laboratory of Cardiovascular Research, Department of Clinical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Siamak Djafarzadeh

Contributed equally to this work with: Rolf Spirig, Siamak Djafarzadeh

Affiliations Laboratory of Intensive Care, Department of Clinical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland

Tomas Regueira

Affiliations Laboratory of Intensive Care, Department of Clinical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland

Sidney G. Shaw

Affiliation Laboratory of Vasoactive Peptides, Department of Clinical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Christophe von Garnier

Affiliation Department of Pneumology, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland

Jukka Takala

Affiliations Laboratory of Intensive Care, Department of Clinical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland

Stephan M. Jakob

Affiliations Laboratory of Intensive Care, Department of Clinical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland

Robert Rieben

Affiliation Laboratory of Cardiovascular Research, Department of Clinical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Philipp M. Lepper

philipp.lepper@gmx.de

Affiliations Laboratory of Intensive Care, Department of Clinical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RS SD PML. Performed the experiments: RS SD TR PML. Analyzed the data: RS SD SGS JT SMJ RR PML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SGS CvG JT SMJ RR. Wrote the paper: RS SD SGS PML. Obtained funding: SD JT SMJ RR PML. Performed additional experiments for revision: CvG. Critical revision of the paper: JT SMJ RR.