Yu, Jeremy Y.
Du, Mei
Elliott, Michael H.
Wu, Mingyuan
Fu, Dongxu
Yang, Shihe
Basu, Arpita
Gu, Xiaowu
Ma, Jian-Xing
Aston, Christopher E.
Lyons, Timothy J.
Funding for this research was provided by:
LINJO Fund (Unrestricted grant)
Research to Prevent Blindness (Unrestricted grant)
Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (HR09-028)
American Diabetes Association (1-13-IN-17)
National Center for Research Resources (P20 RR024215)
National Eye Institute (RO1 EY019494)
Article History
Received: 23 February 2016
Accepted: 13 May 2016
First Online: 15 June 2016
Funding
: The authors acknowledge Dean McGee Eye Institute Image Core Facility supported by a core grant (P30 EY021725) and by an unrestricted grant from Research to Prevent Blindness. This work was supported by the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology grant (HR08-67 and HR09-028), the Linda Johnson Research Fund (LINJO), the ADA grant (1-13-IN-17) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (R01EY019494). This publication was made possible by the NIH grant (P20 RR024215) from the Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) Program of the National Center for Research Resources. The sponsor or funding organisation had no role in the design or conduct of this research.
: The authors declare that there is no duality of interest associated with this manuscript.
: MD, MHE, MW, DF, SY, and XG conducted experiments, researched data and wrote the manuscript. JYY, AB and CEA researched data and wrote the manuscript. JXM and TJL conceived and conducted the study, researched data, and wrote the manuscript. TJL is the guarantor of this work and, as such, had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. All authors approved the final version for publication.