About the Authors
- Andrey Zhivov
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Contributed equally to this work with: Andrey Zhivov, Sabine Peschel
* E-mail: andyzhyvov@yahoo.com
Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
- Sabine Peschel
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Contributed equally to this work with: Andrey Zhivov, Sabine Peschel
Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
- Hans-Christof Schober
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Affiliation Clinic of Internal Medicine I, Klinikum Südstadt, Rostock, Germany
- Oliver Stachs
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
- Simone Baltrusch
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Affiliation Institute of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
- Marie Therese Bambi
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, St. Joseph Hospital, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
- Janvier Kilangalanga
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, St. Joseph Hospital, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
- Karsten Winter
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Affiliation Translational Centre for Regenerative Medicine (TRM), University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Guenther Kundt
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Affiliation Institute for Biostatistics and Informatics in Medicine and Ageing Research, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
- Rudolf F. Guthoff
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AZ HS RFG OS. Performed the experiments: AZ SP MTB JK OS. Analyzed the data: AZ KW SP JK SB OS GK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HS SB OS. Wrote the paper: AZ KW SP RFG OS GK.