About the Authors

Wen-Jinn Liaw

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Tungs' Taichung MetroHarbor Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Anesthesiology, Tri­Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Pharmacology, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Cheng-Ming Tsao

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Tri­Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital and National Yang­ Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Go-Shine Huang

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Tri­Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Chin-Chen Wu

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Shung-Tai Ho

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital and National Yang­ Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Jhi-Joung Wang

Affiliation Departments of Anesthesiology, Medical Research, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan

Yuan-Xiang Tao

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Hao-Ai Shui

haoai@ndmctsgh.edu.tw

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WJL HAS. Performed the experiments: WJL HAS. Analyzed the data: CCW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: STH JJW WJL YXT. Wrote the paper: CMT WJL GSH YXT HAS.