About the Authors

Lei Fang

Affiliation Department of Biomedicine, University Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Charles Hemion

Affiliation Department of Biomedicine, University Basel, Basel, Switzerland

David Goldblum

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Peter Meyer

Affiliations Department of Biomedicine, University Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Department of Ophthalmology, University Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Selim Orgül

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Stephan Frank

Affiliation Division of Neuropathology, Institute of Pathology, University Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Josef Flammer

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Albert Neutzner

albert.neutzner@unibas.ch

Affiliations Department of Biomedicine, University Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Department of Ophthalmology, University Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LF PM SO SF JF AN. Performed the experiments: LF CH. Analyzed the data: LF CH AN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DG. Wrote the paper: LF DG SF JF AN.