About the Authors
- Motoko Kawashima
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* E-mail: motoko-k@a3.keio.jp (MK); tsubota@z3.keio.jp (KT)
Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Tetsuya Kawakita
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Takaaki Inaba
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Naoko Okada
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Masataka Ito
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, National Defense Medical College, Saitama, Japan
- Shigeto Shimmura
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Mitsuhiro Watanabe
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Ken Shinmura
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Affiliation Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Kazuo Tsubota
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* E-mail: motoko-k@a3.keio.jp (MK); tsubota@z3.keio.jp (KT)
Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Competing Interests
Financial support was provided by NRL Pharma, Kawasaki, Japan. There were no other relationships (employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products) between the authors and NRL Pharma. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MK KS KT. Performed the experiments: MK TI NO MI MW. Analyzed the data: MK TI NO MI MW. Wrote the paper: MK TK SS MW KS KT.