About the Authors

Lorraine Iacovitti

lorraine.iacovitti@jefferson.edu

Affiliation Farber Institute of Neurosciences, Department of Neuroscience, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Xiaotao Wei

Affiliation Farber Institute of Neurosciences, Department of Neuroscience, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jingli Cai

Affiliation Farber Institute of Neurosciences, Department of Neuroscience, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Eric W. Kostuk

Affiliation Farber Institute of Neurosciences, Department of Neuroscience, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ruihe Lin

Affiliation Farber Institute of Neurosciences, Department of Neuroscience, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Alexander Gorodinsky

Affiliation Taconic Farms, Inc., Hudson, New York, United States of America

Philip Roman

Affiliation Taconic Farms, Inc., Hudson, New York, United States of America

Gretchen Kusek

Affiliation Taconic Farms, Inc., Hudson, New York, United States of America

Sonal S. Das

Affiliation The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, New York, New York, United States of America

Audrey Dufour

Affiliation The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, New York, New York, United States of America

Terina N. Martinez

Affiliation The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, New York, New York, United States of America

Kuldip D. Dave

Affiliation The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

Taconic Farms Inc. is commercial sponsor of this research. Co-authors Alexander Gorodinsky, Philip Roman and Gretchen Kusek are affiliated as employees of Taconic Farms Inc. The authors declare that this does not alter their adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LI GK KDD. Performed the experiments: XW JC EWK RL AG PR. Analyzed the data: LI JC GK SSD AD TNM KDD. Wrote the paper: LI JC GK KDD.