About the Authors

Youngsoon Kim

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, VA San Diego Healthcare System, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Albert G. Remacle

Affiliation Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Andrei V. Chernov

Affiliation Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Huaqing Liu

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, VA San Diego Healthcare System, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Igor Shubayev

Affiliation VA San Diego Healthcare System, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Calvin Lai

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, VA San Diego Healthcare System, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jennifer Dolkas

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, VA San Diego Healthcare System, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Sergey A. Shiryaev

Affiliation Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Vladislav S. Golubkov

Affiliation Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Andrew P. Mizisin

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Alex Y. Strongin

Affiliation Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Veronica I. Shubayev

vshubayev@ucsd.edu

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, VA San Diego Healthcare System, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VIS YK AYS AGR AVC. Performed the experiments: YK AGR AVC HL IS CL JD SAS VSG APM. Analyzed the data: YK AGR AVC HL CL IS JD SAS VSG APM AYS VIS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VIS AYS APM. Wrote the paper: VIS AYS.