Ebola virus disrupts the inner blood-retinal barrier by induction of vascular endothelial growth factor in pericytes

• Jiawang Gao,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Center for Biosafety Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Zhengyuan Guo,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Center for Biosafety Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Wei Li,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Center for Biosafety Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

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• Xiaowei Zhang,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Center for Biosafety Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

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• Xian-En Zhang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Faculty of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China

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• Zongqiang Cui

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: czq@wh.iov.cn

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Center for Biosafety Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1564-272X

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