About the Authors

Lisa A. Matlaf

Affiliation California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Lualhati E. Harkins

Affiliation Birmingham Veterans Administration Hospital, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Vladimir Bezrookove

Affiliation California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Charles S. Cobbs

Contributed equally to this work with: Charles S. Cobbs, Liliana Soroceanu

Affiliations California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America, University of California San Francisco, Department of Neurological Surgery, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Liliana Soroceanu

Contributed equally to this work with: Charles S. Cobbs, Liliana Soroceanu

sorocel@cpmcri.org

Affiliation California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LM LS. Performed the experiments: LM LH VB LS. Analyzed the data: LM VB LS. Wrote the paper: LM LS CSC.