About the Authors

Gourav Roy Choudhury

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Institute for Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Research, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

Ali Winters

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Institute for Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Research, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

Ryan M. Rich

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology & Immunology, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

Myoung-Gwi Ryou

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Institute for Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Research, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

Zygmunt Gryczynski

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology & Immunology, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

Fang Yuan

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Shao-Hua Yang

ran.liu@unthsc.edu (RL); shaohua.yang@unthsc.edu (SY)

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Institute for Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Research, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Ran Liu

ran.liu@unthsc.edu (RL); shaohua.yang@unthsc.edu (SY)

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Institute for Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Research, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GRC SY RL. Performed the experiments: GRC AW RMR MGR. Analyzed the data: GRC RMR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZG SY RL. Wrote the paper: GRC SY RL. Critically reviewed the manuscript: FY RL SY.