About the Authors

Volodymyr Gerzanich

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Min Seong Kwon

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Seung Kyoon Woo

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Alexander Ivanov

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

J. Marc Simard

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

msimard@som.umaryland.edu

Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Simard holds a US patent (“Methods for treating neural cell swelling”; patent # 7,285,574). Dr. Simard is a member of the scientific advisory board and holds shares in Remedy Pharmaceuticals. No support, direct or indirect, was provided to Dr. Simard, or for this project, by Remedy Pharmaceuticals. All other authors report no conflicts. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.