About the Authors

Umeshkanta S. Thounaojam

Contributed equally to this work with: Umeshkanta S. Thounaojam, Jianxia Cui

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Jianxia Cui

Contributed equally to this work with: Umeshkanta S. Thounaojam, Jianxia Cui

Affiliations BioCircuits Institute, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Sharon E. Norman

Affiliation School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Robert J. Butera

Affiliations School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta Georgia, United States of America

Carmen C. Canavier

ccanav@lsuhsc.edu

Affiliations Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Neuroscience Center of Excellence, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RJB CCC. Performed the experiments: JC. Analyzed the data: UST. Wrote the paper: UST JC SEN RJB CCC. Analyzed data and ran simulations: UST. Performed the electrophysiology: JC.