About the Authors

Alessandra Micera

Affiliation IRCCS - G.B. Bietti Foundation, Rome, Italy

Ilaria Puxeddu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, School of Pharmacy, Institute for Drug Research, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Bijorn Omar Balzamino

Affiliation IRCCS - G.B. Bietti Foundation, Rome, Italy

Stefano Bonini

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy

Francesca Levi-Schaffer

francescal@ekmd.huji.ac.il

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, School of Pharmacy, Institute for Drug Research, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM FLS. Performed the experiments: AM IP BOB. Analyzed the data: AM IP BOB SB FLS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM SB FLS. Wrote the paper: AM FLS.