About the Authors
- James D. Nicholson
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Maryland-Baltimore School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Adam C. Puche
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Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland-Baltimore School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Yan Guo
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Maryland-Baltimore School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Daniel Weinreich
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Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Maryland-Baltimore School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Bernard J. Slater
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Current address: Department of Neurobiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Maryland-Baltimore School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Steven L. Bernstein
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* E-mail: slbernst@umaryland.edu
Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Maryland-Baltimore School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland-Baltimore School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Competing Interests
The use of PGJ2 for NAION has been granted US patent #8,106,096 to the University of Maryland-Baltimore. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SLB JDN ACP DW. Performed the experiments: JDN YG BJS SLB DW. Analyzed the data: SLB JDN DW BJS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SLB DW. Wrote the paper: SLB JDN DW.