About the Authors

Taisaku Nogi

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and The Stem Cell Institute, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minnesota, United States of America

Dan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and The Stem Cell Institute, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minnesota, United States of America

John D. Chan

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and The Stem Cell Institute, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minnesota, United States of America

Jonathan S. Marchant

march029@umn.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and The Stem Cell Institute, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TN DZ JSM. Performed the experiments: TN DZ JDC JSM. Analyzed the data: TN DZ JSM. Wrote the paper: JSM.