About the Authors

Alexandru D. P. Papoiu

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Leigh A. Nattkemper

Current address: Department of Dermatology, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliation PhD Program in Neurosciences, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Kristen M. Sanders

Affiliation PhD Program in Neurosciences, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Robert A. Kraft

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Wake Forest University & Virginia Tech, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Yiong-Huak Chan

Affiliation Biostatistics Unit, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Robert C. Coghill

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Gil Yosipovitch

gil.yosipovitch@tuhs.temple.edu

Current address: Department of Dermatology, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Dermatology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AP GY RK RC. Performed the experiments: AP LN. Analyzed the data: AP LN KS RK YHC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RK YHC RC AP. Wrote the manuscript: AP KS LN GY. Critically reviewed the manuscript: GY. Designed figures and tables: AP (Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5), LN (Figs. 1, 6). Revised the manuscript: AP.