About the Authors

Florian Chouchou

florianchouchou@gmail.com

Affiliations Service de Physiologie Clinique, Pole NOL, CHU Nord, Saint-Etienne, France, EA 4607 SNA-EPIS, Université Jean Monnet, PRES de Lyon, Saint-Etienne, France

Vincent Pichot

Affiliations Service de Physiologie Clinique, Pole NOL, CHU Nord, Saint-Etienne, France, EA 4607 SNA-EPIS, Université Jean Monnet, PRES de Lyon, Saint-Etienne, France

Jean-Claude Barthélémy

Affiliation Service de Physiologie Clinique, Pole NOL, CHU Nord, Saint-Etienne, France

Hélène Bastuji

Affiliation Unité NeuroPain, Centre de recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, INSERM U1028 CNRS UMR5292, Lyon, France

Frédéric Roche

Affiliations Service de Physiologie Clinique, Pole NOL, CHU Nord, Saint-Etienne, France, EA 4607 SNA-EPIS, Université Jean Monnet, PRES de Lyon, Saint-Etienne, France

Competing Interests

Florian Chouchou received financial support from Novacor Ltd. (Rueil Malmaison, France) during this study. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JCB HB FR. Performed the experiments: FC VP. Analyzed the data: FC VP FR JCB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FC VP HB. Wrote the paper: FC VP JCB HB FR.