αB Crystallin Is Apically Secreted within Exosomes by Polarized Human Retinal Pigment Epithelium and Provides Neuroprotection to Adjacent Cells

• Parameswaran G. Sreekumar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Parameswaran G. Sreekumar, Ram Kannan

  Affiliation Arnold and Mabel Beckman Macular Research Center, Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Ram Kannan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Parameswaran G. Sreekumar, Ram Kannan

  Affiliations Arnold and Mabel Beckman Macular Research Center, Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Mizuki Kitamura,

  Affiliation Arnold and Mabel Beckman Macular Research Center, Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Christine Spee,

  Affiliation Arnold and Mabel Beckman Macular Research Center, Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Ernesto Barron,

  Affiliation Arnold and Mabel Beckman Macular Research Center, Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Stephen J. Ryan,

  Affiliations Arnold and Mabel Beckman Macular Research Center, Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• David R. Hinton

  * E-mail: dhinton@usc.edu

  Affiliations Arnold and Mabel Beckman Macular Research Center, Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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