About the Authors

Jennie Garcia-Olivares

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Delany Torres-Salazar

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

William A. Owens

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Tracy Baust

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

David P. Siderovski

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and UNC Neuroscience Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Susan G. Amara

Affiliations Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jun Zhu

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, South Carolina College of Pharmacy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Lynette C. Daws

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Gonzalo E. Torres

gtorres@pitt.edu

Affiliations Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JG-O LD GET. Performed the experiments: JG-O DT-S TB WAO JZ. Analyzed the data: JG-O LCD GET. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DPS SGA. Wrote the paper: JG-O TB GET.