The authors thank Joel M. Sederstrom for his expert assistance with flow cytometry experiments and Mahira Zaheer and Kevin Tesareski for technical assistance.
Presented in part as abstracts at the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, 2010, 2013, and 2014.
Supported by grants from W81XWH-12-1-0616 (CSDP; Department of Defense, Fort Detrick, MD, USA), National Institutes of Health (NIH) Training Grant T32-AI053831 (FB; Bethesda, MD, USA), National Eye Institute/NIH Core Grant EY-002520, Research to Prevent Blindness (New York, NY, USA), NIH funding to Cytometry and Cell Sorting Core at Baylor College of Medicine (NIAID P30AI036211, NCI P30CA125123, and NCRR S10RR024574), The Oshman Foundation (Houston, TX, USA), William Stamps Farish Fund (Houston, TX, USA), and The Hamill Foundation (Houston, TX, USA).
Disclosure: F. Bian, None; F.S.A. Pelegrino, None; S.C. Pflugfelder, None; E.A. Volpe, None; D.-Q. Li, None; C.S. de Paiva, None