About the Authors

Matthew S. Alkaitis

Affiliations Neuroscience Center at Dartmouth, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America, Nuffield Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Carlos Solorzano

Affiliation Departments of Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Russell P. Landry

Affiliations Neuroscience Center at Dartmouth, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America, Department of Anesthesiology, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

Daniele Piomelli

Affiliation Departments of Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Joyce A. DeLeo

Affiliations Neuroscience Center at Dartmouth, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America, Department of Anesthesiology, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

E. Alfonso Romero-Sandoval

Edgar.A.Romero-Sandoval@dartmouth.edu

Affiliations Neuroscience Center at Dartmouth, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America, Department of Anesthesiology, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

Competing Interests

The American Pain Society 2008 Future Leaders in Pain Research Small Grant (AR-S) does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JAD EARS. Performed the experiments: MSA CS RPL EARS. Analyzed the data: MSA EARS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DP JAD EARS. Wrote the paper: MSA JAD EARS. Edited the paper: CS RPL DP. Coordinated some experiments: DP.