About the Authors

Jelena Klawitter

Contributed equally to this work with: Jelena Klawitter, Jost Klawitter, Volker Schmitz

jelena.klawitter@ucdenver.edu

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Jost Klawitter

Contributed equally to this work with: Jelena Klawitter, Jost Klawitter, Volker Schmitz

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Volker Schmitz

Contributed equally to this work with: Jelena Klawitter, Jost Klawitter, Volker Schmitz

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Department of General-, Visceral- and Transplantation Surgery, Charité, Campus Virchow, Berlin, Germany

Touraj Shokati

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Ekaterina Epshtein

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Joshua M. Thurman

Affiliation Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Uwe Christians

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Jelena Klawitter Jost Klawitter VS TS JMT UC. Performed the experiments: Jelena Klawitter Jost Klawitter VS TS. Analyzed the data: Jelena Klawitter Jost Klawitter EE TS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Jelena Klawitter Jost Klawitter VS TS JMT UC. Wrote the paper: Jelena Klawitter Jost Klawitter VS TS EE JMT UC.