About the Authors

Ming D. Li

ml2km@virginia.edu (MDL); sulie.chang@shu.edu (SLC)

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Junran Cao

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Shaolin Wang

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America, School of Biomedical Engineering, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

Ju Wang

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Sraboni Sarkar

Affiliations Institute of NeuroImmune Pharmacology, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, United States of America

Michael Vigorito

Affiliations Institute of NeuroImmune Pharmacology, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Psychology, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, United States of America

Jennie Z. Ma

Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Sulie L. Chang

ml2km@virginia.edu (MDL); sulie.chang@shu.edu (SLC)

Affiliations Institute of NeuroImmune Pharmacology, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MDL SLC. Performed the experiments: JC SW SS MV. Analyzed the data: JC SW JW JZM. Wrote the paper: MDL JC SW JW JZM SLC.