About the Authors

Kuei Y. Tseng

Contributed equally to this work with: Kuei Y. Tseng, Diana J. Park, Anthony R. West

kuei-yuan.tseng@rosalindfranklin.edu (KYT); Anthony.West@rosalindfranklin.edu (ARW)

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Rosalind Franklin University/The Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Adriana Caballero

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Rosalind Franklin University/The Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Alexander Dec

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Rosalind Franklin University/The Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Daryn K. Cass

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Rosalind Franklin University/The Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Natalie Simak

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Rosalind Franklin University/The Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Elizabeth Sunu

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Rosalind Franklin University/The Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Michael J. Park

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Rosalind Franklin University/The Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Shannon R. Blume

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Rosalind Franklin University/The Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Stephen Sammut

Current address: Department of Psychology, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Steubenville, Ohio, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Rosalind Franklin University/The Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Diana J. Park

Contributed equally to this work with: Kuei Y. Tseng, Diana J. Park, Anthony R. West

Current address: Biology Department, North Park University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Rosalind Franklin University/The Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Anthony R. West

Contributed equally to this work with: Kuei Y. Tseng, Diana J. Park, Anthony R. West

kuei-yuan.tseng@rosalindfranklin.edu (KYT); Anthony.West@rosalindfranklin.edu (ARW)

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Rosalind Franklin University/The Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KYT ARW. Performed the experiments: KYT AC NS AD DKC ES MJP SRB SS DJP ARW. Analyzed the data: KYT AC NS AD DKC DJP ARW. Wrote the paper: KYT ARW.