About the Authors

Yone J. Yoon

Current address: Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

Sheryl L. White

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

Xianglian Ni

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

Alexander P. Gokin

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

Miguel Martin-Caraballo

mmartin@umes.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MMC YJY. Performed the experiments: MMC YJY SLW XN APG. Analyzed the data: MMC YJY APG. Wrote the paper: MMC YJY.