About the Authors

Philippe M. Duquette

Affiliation Centre for Stroke Recovery, Neuroscience, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Xun Zhou

Affiliation Centre for Stroke Recovery, Neuroscience, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Nida Lerma Yap

Affiliation Centre for Stroke Recovery, Neuroscience, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Erik J. MacLaren

Affiliation Centre for Stroke Recovery, Neuroscience, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Jesse J. Lu

Affiliation Centre for Stroke Recovery, Neuroscience, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Valerie A. Wallace

Affiliations Molecular Medicine Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, University of Ottawa Eye Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Hsiao-Huei Chen

hchen@uottawa.ca

Affiliations Centre for Stroke Recovery, Neuroscience, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PMD VW HHC. Performed the experiments: PMD XZ NLY EJM HHC. Analyzed the data: PMD JJL HHC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VW HHC. Wrote the paper: HHC.