About the Authors

Stefan Felix Ehrentraut

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Anne Dörr

Affiliation Institute of Physiology II, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Heidi Ehrentraut

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Ralph Lohner

Affiliation Institute of Physiology II, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Sun-Hee Lee

Affiliation Institute of Physiology II, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Andreas Hoeft

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Georg Baumgarten

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Pascal Knuefermann

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Olaf Boehm

Contributed equally to this work with: Olaf Boehm, Rainer Meyer

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Rainer Meyer

Contributed equally to this work with: Olaf Boehm, Rainer Meyer

Rainer.Meyer@ukb.uni-bonn.de

Affiliation Institute of Physiology II, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SFE HE GB OB RM. Performed the experiments: SFE HE AD SHL RL. Analyzed the data: SFE HE AD SHL RL AH OB PK GB RM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OB PK AH GB RM. Wrote the paper: SFE HE OB AH RM PK GB.