About the Authors

Gerardo A. Ceballos

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

gerardoacv@gmail.com (GAC); mabdulreda@miami.edu (MHA)

Current address: Center of Biomedical Engineering and Telemedicine, Faculty of Engineering, University de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela

Affiliation Knoebel Institute for Healthy Aging, University of Denver, Denver, CO, United States of America

Luis F. Hernandez

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America

Daniel Paredes

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Knoebel Institute for Healthy Aging, University of Denver, Denver, CO, United States of America

Luis R. Betancourt

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Morphological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela

Affiliations Knoebel Institute for Healthy Aging, University of Denver, Denver, CO, United States of America, Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America

Midhat H. Abdulreda

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

gerardoacv@gmail.com (GAC); mabdulreda@miami.edu (MHA)

Affiliations Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America

Competing Interests

MHA is consultant for Biocrine, an unlisted biotech company that is using the anterior chamber of the eye technique as a research tool. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. All other authors declare no conflict of interest associated with their contribution to this manuscript.