About the Authors

Paula Desplats

pdesplat@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Wilmar Dumaop

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Peter Cronin

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Sara Gianella

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Steven Woods

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Scott Letendre

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

David Smith

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Eliezer Masliah

Affiliations Department of Neuroscience, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Igor Grant

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PD. Performed the experiments: PD WD PC SG. Analyzed the data: PD SG PC DS SG. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: PD SW SL DS EM IG.