Chiquita, Samuel
Campos, Elisa J.
Castelhano, João
Ribeiro, Mário
Sereno, José
Moreira, Paula I.
Castelo-Branco, Miguel
Ambrósio, António Francisco https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0477-1641
Funding for this research was provided by:
Santa Casa (Mantero Belard Award 2015 (MB-1049-2015))
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (SFRH/BD/52045/2012, SFRH/BPD/93672/2013, PEst UID/NEU/04539/2013, MEDPERSYST SAICTPAC/0010/2015)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (PEst UID/NEU/04539/2019)
COMPETE-FEDER (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007440)
COMPETE-FEDER (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016428)
Centro 2020 Regional Operational Programme (CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-000008: BrainHealth 2020, CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-000016:BIGDATIMAGE)
Article History
Received: 20 May 2019
Accepted: 22 September 2019
First Online: 13 November 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All procedures involving animals were approved by the Animal Welfare Committee of the Coimbra Institute for Clinical and Biomedical Research (iCBR), Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra. The animal experimentation was conducted in accordance with the European Community directive guidelines for the use of animals in laboratory (2010/63/EU), transposed into the Portuguese law in 2013 (Decreto-Lei 113/2013), and with the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) statement for animal use.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.