About the Authors

Jinlong Ding

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinlong Ding, José Ponce-Coria

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Graduate Program Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

José Ponce-Coria

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinlong Ding, José Ponce-Coria

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Eric Delpire

eric.delpire@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JD JPC ED. Performed the experiments: JD JPC ED. Analyzed the data: JD JPC ED. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JD JPC ED. Wrote the paper: JD JPC ED.