TNF-α and NF-κB signaling play a critical role in cigarette smoke-induced epithelial-mesenchymal transition of retinal pigment epithelial cells in proliferative vitreoretinopathy

• Victor Wang,

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

  Affiliation Flaum Eye Institute, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9649-2411

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• Alison Heffer,

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

  Affiliation Flaum Eye Institute, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

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• Elisa Roztocil,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Flaum Eye Institute, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

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• Steven E. Feldon,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Flaum Eye Institute, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America, Center for Visual Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States of America

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• Richard T. Libby,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Flaum Eye Institute, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

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• Collynn F. Woeller ,

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

  * E-mail: Collynn_Woeller@URMC.Rochester.edu (CFW); ajay_kuriyan@urmc.rochester.edu (AEK)

  Affiliations Flaum Eye Institute, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America, Department of Environmental Medicine, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7197-5057

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• Ajay E. Kuriyan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Collynn_Woeller@URMC.Rochester.edu (CFW); ajay_kuriyan@urmc.rochester.edu (AEK)

  Affiliations Flaum Eye Institute, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America, Center for Visual Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States of America, Retina Service/Mid Atlantic Retina, Wills Eye Hospital, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

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