About the Authors

Astrid Zayas-Santiago

Contributed equally to this work with: Astrid Zayas-Santiago, Silke Agte

Affiliation Departments of Pathology, Biochemistry and Physiology, Universidad Central Del Caribe, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, United States of America

Silke Agte

Contributed equally to this work with: Astrid Zayas-Santiago, Silke Agte

Affiliations Paul Flechsig Institute of Brain Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Division of Soft Matter Physics, Department of Physics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Yomarie Rivera

Affiliation Departments of Pathology, Biochemistry and Physiology, Universidad Central Del Caribe, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, United States of America

Jan Benedikt

Affiliation Departments of Pathology, Biochemistry and Physiology, Universidad Central Del Caribe, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, United States of America

Elke Ulbricht

Affiliations Paul Flechsig Institute of Brain Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Anett Karl

Affiliation Paul Flechsig Institute of Brain Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

José Dávila

Affiliation Departments of Pathology, Biochemistry and Physiology, Universidad Central Del Caribe, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, United States of America

Alexey Savvinov

Affiliation Department of Physical Sciences, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, United States of America

Yuriy Kucheryavykh

Affiliation Departments of Pathology, Biochemistry and Physiology, Universidad Central Del Caribe, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, United States of America

Mikhail Inyushin

Affiliation Departments of Pathology, Biochemistry and Physiology, Universidad Central Del Caribe, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, United States of America

Luis A. Cubano

Affiliation Departments of Pathology, Biochemistry and Physiology, Universidad Central Del Caribe, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, United States of America

Thomas Pannicke

Affiliation Paul Flechsig Institute of Brain Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Rüdiger W. Veh

Affiliation Charité, Berlin, Germany

Mike Francke

Affiliations Paul Flechsig Institute of Brain Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Translational Centre for Regenerative Medicine (TRM) University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Alexei Verkhratsky

Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Misty J. Eaton

Affiliation Departments of Pathology, Biochemistry and Physiology, Universidad Central Del Caribe, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, United States of America

Andreas Reichenbach

Affiliation Paul Flechsig Institute of Brain Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Serguei N. Skatchkov

sergueis50@yahoo.com

Affiliation Departments of Pathology, Biochemistry and Physiology, Universidad Central Del Caribe, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SNS AZS AR MF RWV TP LAC AV MJE. Performed the experiments: AZS SA YR JB EU AK JD YK MI AS RWV MF SNS. Analyzed the data: AZS SA YR JB AS MF AR LAC MJE SNS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RWV. Wrote the paper: AZS SNS MJE TP AR MF RWV LAC YK MI AS SA AV.