About the Authors

Amritha A. Candadai

Contributed equally to this work with: Amritha A. Candadai, Fang Liu

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Clinical and Experimental Therapeutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Georgia, Augusta, GA, United States of America, Culver Vision Discovery Institute, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States of America, Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center, Augusta, GA, United States of America

Fang Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Amritha A. Candadai, Fang Liu

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

Affiliations Clinical and Experimental Therapeutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Georgia, Augusta, GA, United States of America, Culver Vision Discovery Institute, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States of America, Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center, Augusta, GA, United States of America, Vascular Biology Center, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States of America

Abdelrahman Y. Fouda

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Culver Vision Discovery Institute, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States of America, Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center, Augusta, GA, United States of America, Vascular Biology Center, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States of America

Moaddey Alfarhan

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Clinical and Experimental Therapeutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Georgia, Augusta, GA, United States of America, Culver Vision Discovery Institute, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States of America, Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center, Augusta, GA, United States of America

Chithra D. Palani

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Clinical and Experimental Therapeutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Georgia, Augusta, GA, United States of America, Culver Vision Discovery Institute, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States of America, Vascular Biology Center, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States of America

Zhimin Xu

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Culver Vision Discovery Institute, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States of America, Vascular Biology Center, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States of America

Ruth B. Caldwell

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Culver Vision Discovery Institute, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States of America, Vascular Biology Center, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States of America, Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States of America

S. Priya Narayanan

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

pnarayanan@augusta.edu, priya.narayanan@uga.edu

Affiliations Clinical and Experimental Therapeutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Georgia, Augusta, GA, United States of America, Culver Vision Discovery Institute, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States of America, Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center, Augusta, GA, United States of America, Vascular Biology Center, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States of America, Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.