About the Authors
- Amjad Shehadah
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
- Jieli Chen
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* E-mail: jieli@neuro.hfh.edu
Affiliation Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
- Brian Kramer
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Affiliation Advanced Technologies and Regenerative Medicine, LLC, Somerville, New Jersey, United States of America
- Alex Zacharek
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
- Yisheng Cui
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
- Cynthia Roberts
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
- Mei Lu
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Research Epidemiology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
- Michael Chopp
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Affiliations Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Physics, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors declare that one of our co-authors, Brian Kramer PhD, is an employee of Advanced Technologies and Regenerative Medicine, the commercial funder of the study. This affiliation does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The authors do not have any other declarations related to patents, products in development or marketed products.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AS JC MC. Performed the experiments: AS AZ YC CR. Analyzed the data: AS JC ML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS JC BK AZ YC CR MC. Wrote the paper: AS JC MC.