About the Authors

Gopal Pandi

Contributed equally to this work with: Gopal Pandi, Venkata P. Nakka

Current address: Department of Plant Biotechnology, School of Biotechnology, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India

Affiliation Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Venkata P. Nakka

Contributed equally to this work with: Gopal Pandi, Venkata P. Nakka

Affiliation Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Ashutosh Dharap

Affiliation Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Avtar Roopra

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Raghu Vemuganti

vemuganti@neurosurgery.wisc.edu

Affiliation Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RV GP VPN AD AR. Performed the experiments: GP VPN AD. Analyzed the data: RV GP VPN AD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RV GP VPN AD AR. Wrote the paper: RV VPN GP AD.