Short communicationA novel rat model to study the functions of macrophages during normal development and pathophysiology of the eye
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Acknowledgements
This work was supported in part by a pediatric ophthalmology research grant from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation, Inc. (to DS). We are grateful to Christian Elowsky of the Ross Microscopy facility, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for his help with the microscopy.
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