About the Authors

Hongyu Ying

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Xiang Shen

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

BumChan Park

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Beatrice Y. J. T. Yue

beatyue@uic.edu

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HY BYJTY. Performed the experiments: HY XS BP. Analyzed the data: HY XS BYJTY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BP. Wrote the paper: HY BYJTY.