About the Authors

Aroa Ejarque-Ortiz

aroa.ejarque@vhir.org (AEO); joan.sayos@vhir.org (JS)

Affiliations Immunobiology Group, CIBBIM-Nanomedicine Program, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebrón, Institut de Recerca (VHIR), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Networking Research Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBBER-BBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Barcelona, Spain

Carme Solà

Affiliation Department of Cerebral Ischemia and Neurodegeneration, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques de Barcelona-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain

Águeda Martínez-Barriocanal

Affiliations Immunobiology Group, CIBBIM-Nanomedicine Program, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebrón, Institut de Recerca (VHIR), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Networking Research Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBBER-BBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Barcelona, Spain

Simó Schwartz Jr

Affiliations Drug Delivery and Targeting Group, CIBBIM-Nanomedicine Program, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebrón, Institut de Recerca (VHIR), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Networking Research Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBBER-BBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Barcelona, Spain

Margarita Martín

Affiliation Biochemistry Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Hugo Peluffo

Affiliations Neurodegeneration Laboratory, Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay, Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, UDELAR, Montevideo, Uruguay

Joan Sayós

aroa.ejarque@vhir.org (AEO); joan.sayos@vhir.org (JS)

Affiliations Immunobiology Group, CIBBIM-Nanomedicine Program, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebrón, Institut de Recerca (VHIR), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Networking Research Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBBER-BBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JS AEO HP MM. Performed the experiments: AEO CS HP. Analyzed the data: JS AEO HP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JS SS CS HP MM. Wrote the paper: AEO JS HP CS AMB.