About the Authors

Aarti Nagayach

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Anshuman Singh

Roles Methodology

Current address: Department of Neurobiology and Anatomical Sciences, University Mississippi School of Medicine, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Angel L. De Blas

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

Alfred I. Geller

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft

agelle@lsuhsc.edu

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

A.I.G. has equity in Alkermes Inc. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.