About the Authors

Devin W. McBride

Affiliation Department of Physiology & Pharmacology, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, United States of America

Cesar Reis

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, United States of America

Ethan Frank

Affiliation Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, California, United States of America

Damon W. Klebe

Affiliation Department of Physiology & Pharmacology, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, United States of America

John H. Zhang

Affiliations Department of Physiology & Pharmacology, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, United States of America

Richard Applegate II

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, United States of America

Jiping Tang

jtang@llu.edu

Affiliation Department of Physiology & Pharmacology, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DWM JHZ RA JT. Data curation: DWM CR. Formal analysis: DWM EF. Funding acquisition: RA JT. Investigation: DWM CR RA JT. Methodology: DWM RA JT. Project administration: JT. Resources: RA JT. Software: DWM. Supervision: JHZ RA JT. Validation: DWM DK. Visualization: DWM. Writing – original draft: DWM. Writing – review & editing: DK JHZ RA JT.