Neurobiology of Disease Induced Autoimmunity to Heat Shock Proteins Elicits Glaucomatous Loss of Retinal Ganglion Cell Neurons via Activated T-Cell-Derived Fas-Ligand
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Martin B. Wax,1,2 Gülgün Tezel,3,4 Junjie Yang,1 Guanghua Peng,5 Rajkumar V. Patil,1 Neeraj Agarwal,6 Rebecca M. Sappington,7 and David J. Calkins7 1Ophthalmology Discovery Research, Alcon Corporation, Fort Worth, Texas 76134, 2Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas 75390-9057, Departments of 3Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and 4Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40202, 5Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, 6Oculomotor Systems and Neuro-Ophthalmology, Division of Extramural Research, National Eye Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892; and 7The Vanderbilt Eye Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee 37232
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