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Received: 30 May 2019

Accepted: 5 December 2019

First Online: 31 December 2019

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The present work used human and animal samples. All experiments described herein were performed in compliance with the Spanish and European Laboratory Animal Science Association-FELASA Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, the European Union Council Directive 2010/63/EU for the use of animals and the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology-ARVO for the use of animals in ophthalmic and vision research. Animal manipulation and experimental methods have been approved by the Ethics Committee for Animal Experimentation of CABIMER, Seville, Spain. All efforts were made to minimize the number of animals used and their suffering. Pig and cow eye samples were obtained from a local slaughterhouse. Human eye sample for Western blotting was obtained from a deceased healthy donor, in a procedure approved by the Ethics Committee of University Hospital Virgen Macarena, Seville, Spain.

: No individual data to disclose.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.