About the Authors

Anselm G. M. Jünemann

anselm.juenemann@uk-erlangen.de

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

Piotr Stopa

Affiliation Department of General Ophthalmology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

Bernhard Michalke

Affiliation Institute of Ecological Chemistry, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany

Anwar Chaudhri

Affiliation Bio-Inorganic Chemistry, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Udo Reulbach

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Cord Huchzermeyer

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

Ursula Schlötzer-Schrehardt

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

Friedrich E. Kruse

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

Eberhart Zrenner

Affiliation Ophthalmic Research, Centre for Ophthalmology, Tübingen, Germany

Robert Rejdak

Affiliations Department of General Ophthalmology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland, Department of Experimental Pharmacology, Medical Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AJ BM AC UR US FK EZ RJ. Performed the experiments: AJ PS BM RR. Analyzed the data: AJ PS UR RR. Wrote the paper: AJ PS CH US RR. Final approval of manuscript: BM AC UR FK EZ.