About the Authors

Ji-Hey Lim

Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for Comparative Medicine and Translational Research, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Audrey C. Muguet-Chanoit

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Daniel T. Smith

Affiliation Department Industrial and Physical Pharmacy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Eric Laber

Affiliation Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Natasha J. Olby

Natasha_olby@ncsu.edu

Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for Comparative Medicine and Translational Research, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

Neurometrix provided funding for this research study (http://www.neurometrix.com/). Purdue University filed a patent on the use of pyridines to treat injured mammalian nerve tissue and Dr. Smith is a named inventor on the patent. The patent number is US 7,244,748 B2 and the name is Pyridines for Treating Injured Mammalian Nervous Tissue. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NJO DTS JHL. Performed the experiments: AMC JHL NJO. Analyzed the data: JHL NJO EL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DTS EL. Wrote the paper: NJO JHL EL.