About the Authors

Yang Yang

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu university, Fukuoka, Japan

Atsunobu Takeda

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu university, Fukuoka, Japan

Takeru Yoshimura

takeruy@med.kyushu-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu university, Fukuoka, Japan

Yuji Oshima

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu university, Fukuoka, Japan

Koh-Hei Sonoda

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan

Tatsuro Ishibashi

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu university, Fukuoka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YY AT TY KHS. Performed the experiments: YY AT TY. Analyzed the data: YY AT TY YO KHS TI. Wrote the paper: YY TY TI.