Article Information
- Received August 27, 2009
- Revision received July 1, 2010
- Accepted July 7, 2010
- First published August 18, 2010.
- Version of record published August 18, 2010.
Author Information
- 1Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri 63110, and
- 2Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina 29425
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Alexander V. Kolesnikov, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University in Saint Louis, 660 South Euclid Avenue, Saint Louis, MO 63110. kolesnikov{at}wustl.edu
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Disclosures
- Received August 27, 2009.
- Revision received July 1, 2010.
- Accepted July 7, 2010.
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This work was supported by a Career Development Award from Research to Prevent Blindness and grants from the International Retina Research Foundation and the Karl Kirchgessner Foundation (V.J.K.), unrestricted grants from Research to Prevent Blindness to the Departments of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at Washington University and the Medical University of South Carolina, and National Institutes of Health Grants EY019312 (V.J.K.), EY004939 (R.K.C.), and EY002687 to the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at Washington University. We are grateful to Krikor Dikranian, Jean Jones, and Belinda McMahan for their advice and help with the morphometric analysis, to Frank Schottler for his help with TEM, to Nancy Nadon from the National Institute on Aging for the access to aged mice, and to Alapakkam Sampath for his comments on the manuscript.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Alexander V. Kolesnikov, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University in Saint Louis, 660 South Euclid Avenue, Saint Louis, MO 63110. kolesnikov{at}wustl.edu
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