About the Authors

Wei Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Hu, Josbert Metselaar

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Josbert Metselaar

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Hu, Josbert Metselaar

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Li-Hong Ben

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Petra D. Cravens

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Mahendra P. Singh

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Elliot M. Frohman

Affiliations Department of Neurology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Todd N. Eagar

Affiliations Department of Neurology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Center for Immunology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Michael K. Racke

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Bernd C. Kieseier

bernd.kieseier@uni-duesseldorf.de (BCK); olaf.stuve@va.gov (OS)

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Olaf Stüve

bernd.kieseier@uni-duesseldorf.de (BCK); olaf.stuve@va.gov (OS)

Affiliations Department of Neurology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Center for Immunology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Department of Neurology, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany, Neurology Section, VA North Texas Health Care System, Medical Service, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WH LHB TNE BCK OS. Performed the experiments: WH LHB MPS BCK OS. Analyzed the data: WH LHB BCK OS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WH JM BCK OS. Wrote the paper: WH PCC EMF TNE MKR BCK OS.