About the Authors

Ross C. McKiernan

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Medical Physics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Eva M. Jimenez-Mateos

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Medical Physics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Isabella Bray

Affiliation Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Tobias Engel

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Medical Physics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Gary P. Brennan

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Medical Physics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Takanori Sano

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Medical Physics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Zuzanna Michalak

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Medical Physics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Catherine Moran

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Medical Physics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Norman Delanty

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Beaumont Hospital, Beaumont, Dublin, Ireland

Michael Farrell

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Beaumont Hospital, Beaumont, Dublin, Ireland

Donncha O’Brien

Affiliation Department of Neurological Surgery, Beaumont Hospital, Beaumont, Dublin, Ireland

Robert Meller

Affiliation Neuroscience Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Roger P. Simon

Affiliation Neuroscience Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Raymond L. Stallings

Affiliations Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, National Children’s Research Centre, Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

David C. Henshall

dhenshall@rcsi.ie

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Medical Physics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RM EJ-M GPB ND RM RPS RLS DH. Performed the experiments: RM EJ-M IB TE GPB TS ZM CM DH. Analyzed the data: RM EJ-M IB GPB ZM DH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MF DO RM RPS RLS. Wrote the paper: RM DH.