About the Authors

Amjad Shehadah

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Jieli Chen

jieli@neuro.hfh.edu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Brian Kramer

Affiliation Advanced Technologies and Regenerative Medicine, LLC, Somerville, New Jersey, United States of America

Alex Zacharek

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Yisheng Cui

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Cynthia Roberts

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Mei Lu

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Research Epidemiology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Michael Chopp

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.