About the Authors

Yonggang Zhang

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Fang Li

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Shu Liu

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Hong Wang

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Sunila Mahavadi

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Medical College of Virginia Campus, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Karnam S. Murthy

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Medical College of Virginia Campus, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Kamel Khalili

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Wenhui Hu

whu@temple.edu

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WH KM. Performed the experiments: FL YZ HW SL SM WH. Analyzed the data: WH FL YZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KM KK. Wrote the paper: WH.