About the Authors
- Michael P. Hefferan
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Affiliation Neuroregeneration Laboratory, Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Jan Galik
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Affiliations Institute of Neurobiology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia, Institute of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Safarik University, Košice, Slovakia
- Osamu Kakinohana
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Affiliation Neuroregeneration Laboratory, Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Gabriela Sekerkova
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Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Camila Santucci
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Affiliation Neuroregeneration Laboratory, Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Silvia Marsala
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Affiliation Neuroregeneration Laboratory, Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Roman Navarro
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Affiliation Neuroregeneration Laboratory, Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Marian Hruska-Plochan
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Affiliations Neuroregeneration Laboratory, Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Libechov, Czech Republic, Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
- Karl Johe
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Affiliation Neuralstem Inc, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Eva Feldman
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- Don W. Cleveland
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Affiliation Ludwig Institute and Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Martin Marsala
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* E-mail: mmarsala@ucsd.edu
Affiliations Neuroregeneration Laboratory, Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Institute of Neurobiology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
Competing Interests
KJ is employed by Neuralstem Inc. and has financial interest in the company. Neuralstem has patented technology of isolation and expansion of human fetal neural precursors and is currently conducting a clinical trial in ALS patients receiving spinal grafts of human spinal stem cells. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MM MH EF DWC. Performed the experiments: MH OK SM CS GS JG RN MHP. Analyzed the data: MH MM JG RN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KJ GS. Wrote the paper: MM MH.