About the Authors

Moritz Haustein

Contributed equally to this work with: Moritz Haustein, Tobias Hannes

Affiliation Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Cologne Heart Centre, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Tobias Hannes

Contributed equally to this work with: Moritz Haustein, Tobias Hannes

tobias.hannes@uk-koeln.de

Affiliations Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Cologne Heart Centre, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Institute for Neurophysiology, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Jan Trieschmann

Affiliation Institute for Neurophysiology, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Rabea Verhaegh

Affiliation Institute of Physiological Chemistry, University Hospital Essen, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Annette Köster

Affiliation Institute for Neurophysiology, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Jürgen Hescheler

Affiliation Institute for Neurophysiology, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Konrad Brockmeier

Affiliation Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Cologne Heart Centre, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Roland Adelmann

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Cologne Heart Centre, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Markus Khalil

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Paediatric Cardiology, University Hospital of Giessen and Marburg, University of Giessen and Marburg, Giessen, Hessen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MH TH RA MK. Performed the experiments: MH RA JT AK. Analyzed the data: MH JT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JH KB RV. Wrote the paper: MH TH MK.