About the Authors

Weixiang Guo

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Erin L. Crossey

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Li Zhang

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Stefano Zucca

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Olivia L. George

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

C. Fernando Valenzuela

fvalenzuela@salud.unm.edu (CV); xzhao@waisman.wisc.edu (XZ)

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Xinyu Zhao

fvalenzuela@salud.unm.edu (CV); xzhao@waisman.wisc.edu (XZ)

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CFV XZ. Performed the experiments: WG ELC LZ SZ OLG. Analyzed the data: WG ELC CFV XZ. Wrote the paper: CFV XZ. Finalized figures for publication: WG XZ CFV.