About the Authors

Nuria Gonzalez-Montalban

Contributed equally to this work with: Nuria Gonzalez-Montalban, Natallia Makarava

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Natallia Makarava

Contributed equally to this work with: Nuria Gonzalez-Montalban, Natallia Makarava

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Valeriy G. Ostapchenko

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Regina Savtchenk

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Irina Alexeeva

Affiliation Medical Research Service, Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Robert G. Rohwer

Affiliations Medical Research Service, Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Neurology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Ilia V. Baskakov

Baskakov@umaryland.edu

Affiliations Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

A provisional patent application was submitted by the institution to which authors are affiliated.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NGM NM IVB. Performed the experiments: NGM NM VGO RS IA. Analyzed the data: NGM NM VGO RGR IVB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RGR. Wrote the paper: RGR IVB.