About the Authors

Russell D. Bradford

Contributed equally to this work with: Russell D. Bradford, Young-Gun Yoo

Current address: Pegus Research, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Young-Gun Yoo

Contributed equally to this work with: Russell D. Bradford, Young-Gun Yoo

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Mijo Golemac

Affiliation Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

Ester Pernjak Pugel

Affiliation Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

Stipan Jonjic

Affiliation Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

William J. Britt

wbritt@peds.uab.edu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RDB YGY SJ WJB. Performed the experiments: RDB YGY MG EPP WJB. Analyzed the data: RDB YGG MG SJ WJB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RDB YGG MG EPP SJ WJB. Wrote the paper: RDB SJ WJB.