About the Authors

RuiRong Yuan

Affiliations Department of Veterans Affairs, New Jersey Health Care System, East Orange, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Neurosciences and Neurology, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Yasuhiro Maeda

Affiliations Department of Veterans Affairs, New Jersey Health Care System, East Orange, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Neurosciences and Neurology, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Weiping Li

Affiliation Department of Veterans Affairs, New Jersey Health Care System, East Orange, New Jersey, United States of America

Wei Lu

Affiliation Department of Veterans Affairs, New Jersey Health Care System, East Orange, New Jersey, United States of America

Stuart Cook

Affiliations Department of Veterans Affairs, New Jersey Health Care System, East Orange, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Neurosciences and Neurology, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Peter Dowling

dowlinpc@umdnj.edu

Affiliations Department of Veterans Affairs, New Jersey Health Care System, East Orange, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Neurosciences and Neurology, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PD RY SC. Performed the experiments: PD RY YM WL WL. Analyzed the data: PD RY YM WL SC WL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PD RY. Wrote the paper: PD RY YM WL.