About the Authors

Youde Jiang

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Qiuhua Zhang

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Jena J. Steinle

jsteinl1@uthsc.edu

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Performed the experiments: YJ QZ. Analyzed the data: YJ QZ JS. Wrote the paper: JS.