About the Authors

Katharine Eakin

Contributed equally to this work with: Katharine Eakin, Yazhou Li

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Yazhou Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Katharine Eakin, Yazhou Li

Affiliation Drug Design and Development Section, Laboratory of Translational Gerontology, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Yung-Hsiao Chiang

Affiliations Ph.D. Program for Neural Regenerative Medicine, Graduate Institute of Neural Regenerative Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei City, Taiwan (R.O.C.), Department of Neurosurgery, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

Barry J. Hoffer

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Hilary Rosenheim

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Nigel H. Greig

Affiliation Drug Design and Development Section, Laboratory of Translational Gerontology, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jonathan P. Miller

jonathan.p.miller@case.edu

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NG BJH YHC JPM. Performed the experiments: KE YL HR JPM. Analyzed the data: NG BJH HR JPM. Wrote the manuscript: NG BJH YHC JPM.