About the Authors

Havan Furmaga

Contributed equally to this work with: Havan Furmaga, Flavia Regina Carreno

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Flavia Regina Carreno

Contributed equally to this work with: Havan Furmaga, Flavia Regina Carreno

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Alan Frazer

frazer@uthscsa.edu

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, Audie L. Murphy Division, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

Drs. Furmaga and Carreno have no competing interests to declare. Previously, Dr. Frazer received financial compensation as a consultant for Cyberonics, Inc. and had also obtained grant support from them for a preclinical study. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HF FC AF. Performed the experiments: HF FC AF. Analyzed the data: HF FC AF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HF FC AF. Wrote the paper: HF FC AF.