About the Authors

Francisco Pan-Montojo

pan-montojo@mpi-cbg.de (FP-M); richard.funk@tu-dresden.de (RHWF)

Affiliations Institute of Anatomy, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany, Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany, International Max-Planck Research School, Max-Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

Oleg Anichtchik

Affiliation Center for Brain Repair, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Yanina Dening

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

Lilla Knels

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

Stefan Pursche

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

Roland Jung

Affiliation Experimental Center, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

Sandra Jackson

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

Gabriele Gille

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

Maria Grazia Spillantini

Affiliation Center for Brain Repair, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Heinz Reichmann

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

Richard H. W. Funk

pan-montojo@mpi-cbg.de (FP-M); richard.funk@tu-dresden.de (RHWF)

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

Competing Interests

Francisco Pan-Montojo has a patent application pending for this animal model (Application number PCT/EP 2009/005688). This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors (http://www.plosone.org/static/policies.action#sharing).

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FJPM. Performed the experiments: FJPM OA. Analyzed the data: FJPM YFD SP SJ GG MGS RF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LK SP RJ SJ GG MGS HR RF. Wrote the paper: FJPM OA MGS RF.