About the Authors

Dafna Willner

dr.dafna@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Ayelet Cohen-Yeshurun

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Drug Research, School of Pharmacy, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Alexander Avidan

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, Hadassah -Hebrew University Medical Center, Hebrew University School of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel

Vladislav Ozersky

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Esther Shohami

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Drug Research, School of Pharmacy, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Ronen R. Leker

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Peritz and Chantal Scheinberg Cerebrovascular Research Laboratory, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Hebrew University School of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DW ACY ES RRL. Performed the experiments: DW ACY VO AA RRL. Analyzed the data: DW ACY AA VO ES RRL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DW ACY AA ES RRL. Wrote the paper: DW ACY AA VO ES RRL. Designed the study: DW ACY ES RRL. Conducted the study: DW ACY AA VO RRL. Acquisition and analysis of data: DW ACY AA VO ES RRL. Writing of manuscript and final approval of the version to be published: DW ACY AA VO ES RRL.