About the Authors

Barbara Assenzio

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Azienda Ospedaliera Città della salute e della scienza di Torino, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Erica L. Martin

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Azienda Ospedaliera Città della salute e della scienza di Torino, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Edgaras Stankevicius

Affiliation Institute of Physiology and Pharmacology, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania

Federica Civiletti

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Azienda Ospedaliera Città della salute e della scienza di Torino, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Marco Fontanella

Affiliation Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Neuroscience, Azienda Ospedaliera Città della salute e della scienza di Torino, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Riccardo Boccaletti

Affiliation Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Neuroscience, Azienda Ospedaliera Città della salute e della scienza di Torino, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Maurizio Berardino

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Azienda Ospedaliera Città della salute e della scienza di Torino, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

AnnaTeresa Mazzeo

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Azienda Ospedaliera Città della salute e della scienza di Torino, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Alessandro Ducati

Affiliation Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Neuroscience, Azienda Ospedaliera Città della salute e della scienza di Torino, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Ulf Simonsen

Affiliation Department of Biomedicine, Pulmonary and Cardiovascular Pharmacology, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

Luciana Mascia

luciana.mascia@unito.it

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Azienda Ospedaliera Città della salute e della scienza di Torino, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BA MF AD US LM. Performed the experiments: BA ELM FC. Analyzed the data: BA ELM ES FC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MF MB RB. Wrote the paper: BA ELM ES ATM US LM.