About the Authors

Maria Burkovetskaya

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Burkovetskaya, Nikolay Karpuk

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Nikolay Karpuk

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Burkovetskaya, Nikolay Karpuk

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Juan Xiong

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Megan Bosch

Affiliation Departments of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Michael D. Boska

Affiliation Department of Radiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Hideyuki Takeuchi

Affiliation Department of Neuroimmunology, Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

Akio Suzumura

Affiliation Department of Neuroimmunology, Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

Tammy Kielian

tkielian@unmc.edu

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MBurkovetskaya NK TK. Performed the experiments: NK JX MBosch MDB. Analyzed the data: MBurkovetskaya NK MDB TK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HT AS. Wrote the paper: MBurkovetskaya NK TK.