About the Authors

Fatima H. Labeed

Contributed equally to this work with: Fatima H. Labeed, Jente Lu

Affiliation Centre for Biomedical Engineering, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom

Jente Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Fatima H. Labeed, Jente Lu

Affiliations Department of Neurology and Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Hayley J. Mulhall

Affiliation Centre for Biomedical Engineering, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom

Steve A. Marchenko

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Kai F. Hoettges

Affiliation Centre for Biomedical Engineering, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom

Laura C. Estrada

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Abraham P. Lee

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Michael P. Hughes

Affiliation Centre for Biomedical Engineering, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom

Lisa A. Flanagan

lflanaga@uci.edu

Affiliation Department of Neurology and Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FHL MPH APL LAF. Performed the experiments: FHL JL HJM SAM. Analyzed the data: FHL JL HJM KFH MPH LAF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LCE. Wrote the paper: FHL LAF.