1Department of Ophthalmology, Hamilton Eye Institute, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA
2Department of Ophthalmology, Dean McGee Eye Institute, The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA
3Division of Biostatistics, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA
4Department of Cell Biology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
5The Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
6Research Service, James A. Haley Veterans Hospital, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
7Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA
8Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA
9Memphis VA Medical Center, Memphis, TN 38104, USA
#Koushik Mondal, Hunter Porter, Jerome Cole II, Hemang K. Pandya and Sandip K. Basu contributed equally to this work.
✉Nawajes Mandal, nmandal@uthsc.edu