About the Authors

Yu Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu Liu, Min Li, Dong Yang

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Min Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu Liu, Min Li, Dong Yang

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Dong Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu Liu, Min Li, Dong Yang

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China

Xuena Zhang

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Anshi Wu

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Shanglong Yao

‡These authors share equal senior authorship.

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China

Zhanggang Xue

‡These authors share equal senior authorship.

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Yun Yue

yueyun@hotmail.com

‡These authors share equal senior authorship.

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YY ZGX SLY. Performed the experiments: YL ML DY XNZ. Analyzed the data: YL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ASW. Wrote the paper: YL.