About the Authors

Donald R. Cantrell

Affiliations Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Jianhua Cang

Affiliations Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Neurobiology and Physiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

John B. Troy

j-troy@northwestern.edu (JBT); xiaorong-liu@northwestern.edu (XL)

Affiliations Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Xiaorong Liu

j-troy@northwestern.edu (JBT); xiaorong-liu@northwestern.edu (XL)

Affiliations Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Neurobiology and Physiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DRC XL. Performed the experiments: DRC XL. Analyzed the data: DRC JC JBT XL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JC JBT XL. Wrote the paper: DRC JC JBT XL.