About the Authors

Mayte Alvarez-Crespo

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Karolina P. Skibicka

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Imre Farkas

Affiliation Laboratory of Endocrine Neurobiology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

Csilla S. Molnár

Affiliation Laboratory of Endocrine Neurobiology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

Emil Egecioglu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Erik Hrabovszky

Affiliation Laboratory of Endocrine Neurobiology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

Zsolt Liposits

Affiliations Laboratory of Endocrine Neurobiology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Information Technology, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary

Suzanne L. Dickson

suzanne.dickson@neuro.gu.se

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Competing Interests

The project was not funded commercially, although the authors received a gift of the antagonist compound JMV2959 from AeternaZentaris GMBH, Frankfurt, Germany. 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: KPS EE SLD ZL IF MAC EH. Performed the experiments: MAC EH CSM IF. Analyzed the data: MAC EH IF. Wrote the paper: MAC SLD.