About the Authors

Avik Roy

Contributed equally to this work with: Avik Roy, Anamitra Ghosh

Affiliation Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Anamitra Ghosh

Contributed equally to this work with: Avik Roy, Anamitra Ghosh

Affiliation Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Arundhati Jana

Affiliation Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Xiaojuan Liu

Affiliation Section of Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Saurav Brahmachari

Affiliation Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Howard E. Gendelman

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Kalipada Pahan

Kalipada_Pahan@rush.edu

Affiliations Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Section of Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KP AR AG. Performed the experiments: AR AG AJ SB XL. Analyzed the data: KP AR AJ HEG. Wrote the paper: KP AR AG HEG.