About the Authors

Alison X. Xie

Affiliation Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Min-Yu Sun

Affiliation Graduate Program in Cellular, Molecular, and Developmental Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Thomas Murphy

Affiliation Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Kelli Lauderdale

Affiliation Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Elizabeth Tiglao

Affiliation Undergraduate Neuroscience Major, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Todd A. Fiacco

todd.fiacco@ucr.edu

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience and Center for Glial-Neuronal Interactions, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TAF AXX. Performed the experiments: AXX MYS. Analyzed the data: AXX TAF ET. Wrote the paper: TAF AXX TM KL.