About the Authors

Ehsan Kachooei

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Ali Akbar Moosavi-Movahedi

moosavi@ibb.ut.ac.ir

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Fariba Khodagholi

Affiliation Neuroscience Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Hassan Ramshini

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Fatemeh Shaerzadeh

Affiliation Neuroscience Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Nader Sheibani

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, and Pharmacology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EK AAM-M HR FK. Performed the experiments: EK FS. Analyzed the data: EK FK FS AAM-M. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EK. Wrote the paper: EK NS FK FS HR AAM-M.