Increased Angiopoietin-1 and -2 levels in human vitreous are associated with proliferative diabetic retinopathy

• Teresa Tsai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Teresa Tsai, Mohannad Alwees

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Experimental Eye Research Institute, University Eye Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

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• Mohannad Alwees ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Teresa Tsai, Mohannad Alwees

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Experimental Eye Research Institute, University Eye Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

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• Mohammad Ali Asaad,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Experimental Eye Research Institute, University Eye Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

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• Janine Theile,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Experimental Eye Research Institute, University Eye Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

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• Vinodh Kakkassery,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Experimental Eye Research Institute, University Eye Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany

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• H. Burkhard Dick,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Experimental Eye Research Institute, University Eye Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

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• Tim Schultz ,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ TS and SCJ also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Experimental Eye Research Institute, University Eye Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

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• Stephanie C. Joachim

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

  * E-mail: stephanie.joachim@rub.de

  ¶‡ TS and SCJ also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Experimental Eye Research Institute, University Eye Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7056-0829

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