About the Authors

Ujjaldeep Jaggi

Contributed equally to this work with: Ujjaldeep Jaggi, Mingjie Yang

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

Affiliation Center for Neurobiology and Vaccine Development, Ophthalmology Research, Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Burns & Allen Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Mingjie Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ujjaldeep Jaggi, Mingjie Yang

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center, Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute, and Department of Surgery, Los Angeles, CA United States of America

Harry H. Matundan

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Center for Neurobiology and Vaccine Development, Ophthalmology Research, Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Burns & Allen Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Satoshi Hirose

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Center for Neurobiology and Vaccine Development, Ophthalmology Research, Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Burns & Allen Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Prediman K. Shah

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center, Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute, and Department of Surgery, Los Angeles, CA United States of America

Behrooz G. Sharifi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center, Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute, and Department of Surgery, Los Angeles, CA United States of America

Homayon Ghiasi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ghiasih@CSHS.org

Affiliation Center for Neurobiology and Vaccine Development, Ophthalmology Research, Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Burns & Allen Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.