About the Authors

Kazuhiro Ikeura

Contributed equally to this work with: Kazuhiro Ikeura, Tetsuya Kawakita

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Dentistry and Oral Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Tetsuya Kawakita

Contributed equally to this work with: Kazuhiro Ikeura, Tetsuya Kawakita

Kawakita@a2.keio.jp

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Kazuyuki Tsunoda

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Dentistry and Oral Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Taneaki Nakagawa

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Dentistry and Oral Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Kazuo Tsubota

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KI TK K. Tsubota. Performed the experiments: KI. Analyzed the data: KI TK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KI TK K. Tsubota TN. Wrote the paper: KI TK K. Tsunoda.