About the Authors

Aya Iriyama

akagi-tky@umin.ac.jp

Affiliations Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital, Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Tokyo School of Medicine, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

Makoto Oba

Affiliation Department of Clinical Vascular Regeneration, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

Takehiko Ishii

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

Nobuhiro Nishiyama

Affiliation Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

Kazunori Kataoka

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan, Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Materials Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

Yasuhiro Tamaki

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

Yasuo Yanagi

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AI YY KK YT. Performed the experiments: AI MO TI NN. Analyzed the data: AI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MO TI NN. Wrote the paper: AI NN YY.