Rajala, Ammaji https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2108-8916
Rajala, Rahul https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4501-349X
Trevino, Larissa J.
Black, Tyler M.
Moiseyev, Gennadiy https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0909-2469
Kinter, Michael
Rajala, Raju V. S. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3783-8504
Funding for this research was provided by:
Presbyterian Health Foundation
Research to Prevent Blindness
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Eye Institute (EY035282)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Eye Institute (EY021725)
Knights Templar Eye Foundation
Article History
Received: 30 October 2025
Revised: 29 May 2026
Accepted: 10 June 2026
First Online: 19 June 2026
Ethics
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
Ethics approval: All animal experiments were performed in compliance with the ARVO Statement for the Use of Animals in Ophthalmic and Vision Research and the NIH Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. All procedures were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center under protocol numbers 23-019-EWCHI and 26-011-EWHI.