About the Authors

Bilada Bilican

Contributed equally to this work with: Bilada Bilican, Matthew R. Livesey

Affiliations Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neurone Disease Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Centre for Neuroregeneration, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Matthew R. Livesey

Contributed equally to this work with: Bilada Bilican, Matthew R. Livesey

Affiliations Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neurone Disease Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Centre for Neuroregeneration, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Ghazal Haghi

Affiliations Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neurone Disease Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Centre for Neuroregeneration, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Jing Qiu

Affiliation Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Karen Burr

Affiliations Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neurone Disease Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Centre for Neuroregeneration, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Rick Siller

Affiliations MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Centre for Neuroregeneration, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Giles E. Hardingham

Affiliation Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

David J. A. Wyllie

dwyllie1@staffmail.ed.ac.uk (DJAW); siddharthan.chandran@ed.ac.uk (SC)

Affiliation Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Siddharthan Chandran

dwyllie1@staffmail.ed.ac.uk (DJAW); siddharthan.chandran@ed.ac.uk (SC)

Affiliations Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neurone Disease Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Centre for Neuroregeneration, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BB MRL GEH DJAW SC. Performed the experiments: BB MRL GH JQ KB RS. Analyzed the data: BB MRL GH JQ KB RS GEH DJAW SC. Wrote the paper: BB MRL GEH DJAW SC.