About the Authors

Harsharan Singh Bhatia

Contributed equally to this work with: Harsharan Singh Bhatia, Rahul Agrawal

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Rahul Agrawal

Contributed equally to this work with: Harsharan Singh Bhatia, Rahul Agrawal

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Sandeep Sharma

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Yi-Xin Huo

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Zhe Ying

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Fernando Gomez-Pinilla

fgomezpi@ucla.edu

Affiliations Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, UCLA Brain Injury Research Center, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FGP HSB RA SS ZY. Performed the experiments: HSB RA SS YH. Analyzed the data: HSB RA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HSB RA. Wrote the paper: HSB FGP RA ZY.