About the Authors

Petri Takkala

Contributed equally to this work with: Petri Takkala, Yi Zhu

Affiliations Neurosciences and Mental Health, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Yi Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Petri Takkala, Yi Zhu

Affiliation Center for Pain Research, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Steven A. Prescott

steve.prescott@sickkids.ca

Affiliations Neurosciences and Mental Health, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Center for Pain Research, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Physiology and the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: PT YZ SAP. Formal analysis: PT YZ SAP. Funding acquisition: SAP. Investigation: PT YZ SAP. Methodology: PT YZ SAP. Project administration: SAP. Supervision: SAP. Visualization: PT YZ SAP. Writing – original draft: PT YZ SAP. Writing – review & editing: PT YZ SAP.