About the Authors

Ami P. Raval

ARaval@med.miami.edu

Affiliation Cerebral Vascular Disease Research Laboratories, Department of Neurology, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Raquel Borges-Garcia

Affiliation Cerebral Vascular Disease Research Laboratories, Department of Neurology, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

William Javier Moreno

Affiliation Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Miguel A. Perez-Pinzon

Affiliations Cerebral Vascular Disease Research Laboratories, Department of Neurology, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Neuroscience Program, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Helen Bramlett

Affiliations Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Neuroscience Program, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Bruce W. Carter Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: APR. Performed the experiments: APR RBG WJM. Analyzed the data: APR RBG HB. Wrote the paper: APR MAPP HB.