About the Authors

Carolyn A. Meyer

Affiliations Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Ranjana Singh

Affiliations Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Mackenzie T. Jones

Affiliation Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Chen-Guang Yu

Affiliation Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Ronan F. Power

Affiliation Center for Animal Nutrigenomics and Applied Animal Nutrition, Alltech, Nicholasville, Kentucky, United States of America

James W. Geddes

jgeddes@uky.edu

Affiliations Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Ronan Power is an employee of Alltech, Inc. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CAM JWG. Performed the experiments: CAM RS MTJ CGY. Analyzed the data: CAM RS MTJ CGY JWG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RFP. Wrote the paper: CAM JWG.