About the Authors

Xiaonan Du

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaonan Du, Bobbi Fleiss

Affiliations Perinatal Center, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Department of Pediatrics, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China

Bobbi Fleiss

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaonan Du, Bobbi Fleiss

Affiliation Perinatal Center, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Hongfu Li

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China, Center for Brain Repair and Rehabilitation, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Barbara D'angelo

Affiliation Perinatal Center, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Yanyan Sun

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China, Center for Brain Repair and Rehabilitation, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Changlian Zhu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China, Center for Brain Repair and Rehabilitation, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Henrik Hagberg

Affiliations Perinatal Center, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Perinatal Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Ofer Levy

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Carina Mallard

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Perinatal Center, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Xiaoyang Wang

xiaoyang.wang@fysiologi.gu.se

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Perinatal Center, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Department of Pediatrics, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

OL served as a consultant to MedImmune and Biosynexus. OL's laboratory receives material and/or sponsored research support from 3M Drug Delivery Systems and VentiRx. None of the other authors declare any conflicts.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XW CM HH OL. Performed the experiments: XD BF HL BD YS. Analyzed the data: XD BF HL BD YS CZ HH XW OL CM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XW XD BF HL BD YS CZ. Wrote the paper: XD XW CM BF CZ HH OL.