About the Authors

Yuki Muraoka

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Hanako Ohashi Ikeda

hanakoi@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Noriko Nakano

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Masanori Hangai

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Yoshinobu Toda

Affiliation Center for Anatomical Studies, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Keiko Okamoto-Furuta

Affiliation Center for Anatomical Studies, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Haruyasu Kohda

Affiliation Center for Anatomical Studies, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Mineo Kondo

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Mie University School of Medicine, Tsu, Japan

Hiroko Terasaki

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Akira Kakizuka

Affiliation Laboratory of Functional Biology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Biostudies and Solution Oriented Research for Science and Technology, Kyoto, Japan

Nagahisa Yoshimura

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HOI YM NY. Performed the experiments: YM NN MH MK HT AK. Analyzed the data: YM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YT KOF HK. Wrote the paper: YM HOI.