About the Authors

Li Ye

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Xu Wang

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

David S. Metzger

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, The Center for Studies of Addiction, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Eric Riedel

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Joseph Stokes, Jr. Research Institute, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Luis J. Montaner

Affiliation The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Wenzhe Ho

wenzheho@temple.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LY XW DSM LJM WH. Performed the experiments: LY XW DSM ER. Analyzed the data: LY LJM WH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DSM. Wrote the paper: LY WH.