About the Authors

Hao Wang

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Jewell A. Jessup

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Zhuo Zhao

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Jaqueline Da Silva

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Marina Lin

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Lindsay M. MacNamara

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Sarfaraz Ahmad

Affiliation Department of Hypertension and Vascular Research Center, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Mark C. Chappell

Affiliation Department of Hypertension and Vascular Research Center, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Carlos M. Ferrario

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine/Nephrology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Leanne Groban

lgroban@wakehealth.edu

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Hypertension and Vascular Research Center, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HW JAJ SA CMF LG. Performed the experiments: HW JAJ ZZ ML LMM LG JDS. Analyzed the data: HW ZZ SA LG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MCC. Wrote the paper: HW LG MCC.