About the Authors

Nadine Kerr

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Neurological Surgery, Neuroscience Program, The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami FL, United States of America

Stephanie W. Lee

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Neurological Surgery, Neuroscience Program, The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami FL, United States of America

Jon Perez-Barcena

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Intensive Care Department, Son Espases Hospital, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Catalina Crespi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Fundacio Institut d’Investigacio Sanitaria Illes Balears (IdISBa), Son Espases Hospital, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Javier Ibañez

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurological Surgery, Son Espases Hospital, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

M. Ross Bullock

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Neurological Surgery, Neuroscience Program, The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America, Department of Neurological Surgery, The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America

W. Dalton Dietrich

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Neurological Surgery, Neuroscience Program, The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America, Department of Neurological Surgery, The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America

Robert W. Keane

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Neurological Surgery, Neuroscience Program, The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami FL, United States of America

Juan Pablo de Rivero Vaccari

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

JdeRivero@med.miami.edu

Affiliations Department of Neurological Surgery, Neuroscience Program, The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America, Department of Neurological Surgery, The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America

Competing Interests

JPdRV, RWK and WDD are co-founders and managing members of InflamaCORE, LLC and have patents on inflammasome proteins as biomarkers of injury and disease as well as on targeting inflammasome proteins for therapeutic purposes. Data presented in this manuscript is protected under US Patent Application: 62/560,963 (Method for Detecting Inflammasome Proteins as Biomarkers of Neurological Disorders). This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.