About the Authors

Stéphane Vinit

Affiliation Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Unité End:icap, UFR des Sciences de la Santé – Simone Veil, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France

Emilie Keomani

Affiliation Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Unité End:icap, UFR des Sciences de la Santé – Simone Veil, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France

Thérèse B. Deramaudt

Affiliations Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Unité End:icap, UFR des Sciences de la Santé – Simone Veil, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France, LIA-BAHN (Laboratoire International Associé – Biologie Appliquée Handicap Neuromusculaire), CSM (Centre Scientifique de Monaco), Monaco, Monaco

Victoria M. Spruance

Affiliation Drexel University College of Medicine, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Tatiana Bezdudnaya

Affiliation Drexel University College of Medicine, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Michael A. Lane

Affiliation Drexel University College of Medicine, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Marcel Bonay

Contributed equally to this work with: Marcel Bonay, Michel Petitjean

Affiliations Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Unité End:icap, UFR des Sciences de la Santé – Simone Veil, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France, LIA-BAHN (Laboratoire International Associé – Biologie Appliquée Handicap Neuromusculaire), CSM (Centre Scientifique de Monaco), Monaco, Monaco, Service de Physiologie-Explorations Fonctionnelles, Hôpital Ambroise Paré, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Groupe Hospitalier Paris Ile-de-France Ouest, Boulogne-Billancourt, France

Michel Petitjean

Contributed equally to this work with: Marcel Bonay, Michel Petitjean

michel.petitjean134@gmail.com

Affiliations Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Unité End:icap, UFR des Sciences de la Santé – Simone Veil, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France, Service de Physiologie-Explorations Fonctionnelles, Hôpital Ambroise Paré, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Groupe Hospitalier Paris Ile-de-France Ouest, Boulogne-Billancourt, France

Competing Interests

The financial support received from LVL Medical to the authors' laboratory is financial support for basic research without any profit. The funders had no role in our study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SV MAL MB MP. Performed the experiments: SV EK TBD VMS TB MP. Analyzed the data: SV EK VMS TB MAL MP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SV MAL MP. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: SV TBD VMS TB MAL MB MP.