About the Authors

Lei Wang

leiwang@neuro.hfh.edu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital, 2799 W. Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan, 48202, United States of America

Michael Chopp

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital, 2799 W. Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan, 48202, United States of America, Department of Physics, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, 48309, United States of America

Alexandra Szalad

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital, 2799 W. Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan, 48202, United States of America

LongFei Jia

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital, 2799 W. Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan, 48202, United States of America

XueRong Lu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital, 2799 W. Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan, 48202, United States of America

Mei Lu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital, 2799 W. Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan, 48202, United States of America

Li Zhang

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital, 2799 W. Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan, 48202, United States of America

Yi Zhang

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital, 2799 W. Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan, 48202, United States of America

RuiLan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital, 2799 W. Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan, 48202, United States of America

Zheng Gang Zhang

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital, 2799 W. Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan, 48202, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LW MC ZGZ. Performed the experiments: LW AS LJ XL LZ YZ RLZ. Analyzed the data: LW AS ML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LW AS. Wrote the paper: LW MC ZGZ.