About the Authors

Hiromitsu Negoro

Affiliation Department of Urology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Marcia Urban-Maldonado

Affiliation Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Louis S. Liou

Affiliation Department of Urology, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

David C. Spray

Affiliation Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Mia M. Thi

Affiliations Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Sylvia O. Suadicani

sylvia.suadicani@einstein.yu.edu

Affiliations Department of Urology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SOS HN MMT. Performed the experiments: HN SOS MMT MUM. Analyzed the data: HN SOS MMT MUM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SOS LSL DCS. Wrote the paper: SOS HN MMT DCS.