About the Authors

Liang Chen

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Qinghang Meng

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Winston Kao

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Ying Xia

ying.xia@uc.edu

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YX LC. Performed the experiments: LC QM. Analyzed the data: LC YX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WK. Wrote the paper: LC YX.