About the Authors

Andrew B. Nesterovitch

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Kyle D. Hogarth

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Vyacheslav A. Adarichev

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Elena I. Vinokour

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

David E. Schwartz

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Julian Solway

Contributed equally to this work with: Julian Solway, Sergei M. Danilov

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Sergei M. Danilov

Contributed equally to this work with: Julian Solway, Sergei M. Danilov

danilov@uic.edu

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, National Cardiology Research Center, Moscow, Russia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ABN VAA JS SMD. Performed the experiments: ABN KDH EIV SMD. Analyzed the data: ABN KDH VAA DES JS SMD. Wrote the paper: VAA JS SMD.