About the Authors

Servio H. Ramirez

Contributed equally to this work with: Servio H. Ramirez, Shongshan Fan

servio@temple.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Center for Substance Abuse Research, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Shongshan Fan

Contributed equally to this work with: Servio H. Ramirez, Shongshan Fan

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Holly Dykstra

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Slava Rom

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Aaron Mercer

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan United States of America

Nancy L. Reichenbach

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Larisa Gofman

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yuri Persidsky

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Center for Substance Abuse Research, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SHR YP SF SR. Performed the experiments: HD AM NLR LG SR. Analyzed the data: SF AM SHR SR. Wrote the paper: SHR YP SF.