Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (3087282, 81072221, 81900888)
Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province (14JJ2005, 2019JJ50937)
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (EY024110, 2019JJ50937)
James Graham Brown Cancer Center of University of Louisville Directed Gift Pilot Pro-ject Program (G1779)
Article History
Accepted: 25 March 2022
First Online: 11 April 2022
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the University of Louisville and adhered to the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki. Written informed consent was obtained. All athymic mice with BABL/c background were purchased from the Jackson’s Laboratory. Breeding, husbandry and surgical procedures complied to the ARVO Statement for the Use of Animals in Ophthalmic and Vision Research and were approved by the University of Louisville Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC #17202) on June 13, 2017 and by China Central South University Xiangya Medical School Ethics Committee (# 201703213) on March 6, 2017.
: All authors have agreed to publish this manuscript.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.