About the Authors

Longhui Cao

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Anesthesiology Department, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Scott Silvestry

Affiliation Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ning Zhao

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

James Diehl

Affiliation Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jianzhong Sun

jian-zhong.sun@jefferson.edu

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LC SS JD JS. Performed the experiments: LC JS. Analyzed the data: LC NZ JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS JD JS. Wrote the paper: LC SS JD JS.