About the Authors

Zhuo Tang

Affiliation Department of Neurology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Lita M. Araysi

Affiliation Department of Neurology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Hassan M Fathallah-Shaykh

hfathall@uab.edu

Affiliations Department of Neurology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, The UAB Comprehensive Neuroscience Center, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, The UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HFS. Performed the experiments: ZT LA HFS. Analyzed the data: HFS ZT LA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HFS. Wrote the paper: HFS.