About the Authors

Hassan Azari

Affiliations Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Laboratory for Stem Cell Research, Department of Anatomical Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran, Department of Neurosurgery, McKnight Brain Institute, The University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Geoffrey W. Osborne

Affiliation Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Takahiro Yasuda

Affiliations Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Health Innovations Research Institute, RMIT University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia

Mohammad G. Golmohammadi

Affiliations Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Department of Anatomical Sciences, Ardebil University of Medical Sciences, Ardebil, Iran

Maryam Rahman

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, McKnight Brain Institute, The University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Loic P. Deleyrolle

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, McKnight Brain Institute, The University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Ebrahim Esfandiari

Affiliation Department of Anatomical Sciences, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

David J. Adams

Affiliations Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Health Innovations Research Institute, RMIT University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia

Bjorn Scheffler

Affiliation Institute of Reconstructive Neurobiology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Dennis A. Steindler

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, McKnight Brain Institute, The University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Brent A. Reynolds

brent.reynolds@neurosurgery.ufl.edu

Affiliations Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Department of Neurosurgery, McKnight Brain Institute, The University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HA GWO BS DAS BAR. Performed the experiments: HA TY MGG. Analyzed the data: HA GWA TY DJA BAR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DJA. Wrote the paper: HA GWO TY MR LPD EE DJA BAR.