About the Authors

Daniel Siegl

Affiliation Walter-Brendel-Centre of Experimental Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Emily F. Midura

Affiliation Division of Research, Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Thorsten Annecke

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Peter Conzen

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology, University Hospital Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany

Charles C. Caldwell

Affiliation Division of Research, Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Johannes Tschoep

Johannes.Tschoep@med.uni-muenchen.de

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology, University Hospital Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DS JT CC. Performed the experiments: DS TA JT. Analyzed the data: DS JT. Wrote the paper: DS EM PC CC JT.