About the Authors

Sujiv Vurgese

Contributed equally to this work with: Sujiv Vurgese, Songhomitra Panda-Jonas

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Songhomitra Panda-Jonas

Contributed equally to this work with: Sujiv Vurgese, Songhomitra Panda-Jonas

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Jost B. Jonas

Jost.Jonas@umm.de

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SV SPJ JBJ. Performed the experiments: SV SPJ JBJ. Analyzed the data: SV SPJ JBJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JBJ. Wrote the paper: SV SPJ JBJ.