About the Authors
- Hongshan Liu
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
- Jianhua Zhang
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
- Chia-Yang Liu
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
- I-Jong Wang
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Martin Sieber
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Affiliation Bionet Corp., Taipei, Taiwan
- John Chang
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Affiliation Bionet Corp., Taipei, Taiwan
- James V. Jester
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Affiliation Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, University of California Irvine Medical Center, Orange, California, United States of America
- Winston W. Y. Kao
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* E-mail: Winston.Kao@UC.Edu
Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Competing Interests
Bionet Corp. is a funder and has provided resources for the preparation of umbilical mesenchymal and hematopoietic stem cells used in the present study. The authors confirm that this affiliation does not alter their adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: HL WWYK. Performed the experiments: HL MS JC JVJ. Analyzed the data: HL CYL IJW MS JC JVJ WWYK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JZ. Wrote the paper: HL. Scientific administrative supervision of the mouse clinic: JZ.