About the Authors

Shuhong Qiao

Contributed equally to this work with: Shuhong Qiao, Sun-Hong Kim

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Sun-Hong Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Shuhong Qiao, Sun-Hong Kim

Current address: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Detlef Heck

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Daniel Goldowitz

Current address: Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Children and Family Research Institute, Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Mark S. LeDoux

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Ramin Homayouni

rhomayon@memphis.edu

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Neurology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SQ S-HK RH. Performed the experiments: SQ SK. Analyzed the data: SQ S-HK DH MSL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MSL DG DH RH. Wrote the paper: SQ S-KH MSL RH.