About the Authors

Svitlana Garbuzova-Davis

sgarbuzo@health.usf.edu

Affiliations Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, University of South Florida, College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair, University of South Florida, College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, United States of America, Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology, University of South Florida, College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, University of South Florida, College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Maria C. O. Rodrigues

Affiliations Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, University of South Florida, College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, United States of America, Ribeirão Preto School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Santhia Mirtyl

Affiliation Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, University of South Florida, College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Shanna Turner

Affiliation Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, University of South Florida, College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Shazia Mitha

Affiliation Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, University of South Florida, College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Jasmine Sodhi

Affiliation Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, University of South Florida, College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Subatha Suthakaran

Affiliation Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, University of South Florida, College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

David J. Eve

Affiliations Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, University of South Florida, College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair, University of South Florida, College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Cyndy D. Sanberg

Affiliation Saneron CCEL Therapeutics, Inc., Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Nicole Kuzmin-Nichols

Affiliation Saneron CCEL Therapeutics, Inc., Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Paul R. Sanberg

Affiliations Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, University of South Florida, College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair, University of South Florida, College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, University of South Florida, College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, University of South Florida, College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

SGD, DJE are consultants and PRS is a co-founder of Saneron CCEL Therapeutics, Inc. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SGD PRS NKN CDS. Performed the experiments: MCOR DJE S. Mirtyl JS S. Mitha SS ST. Analyzed the data: SGD MCOR S. Mirtyl JS S. Mitha SS ST. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PRS. Wrote the paper: SGD.