Materials
| Name | Company | Catalog Number | Comments |
| 1% Tropicamide (Mydriacyl) | Alcon Inc Laboratories | Mydriatic agent | |
| 2% Methocel | OmniVision Eye Care | Hydroxypropryl methylcellulose gel | |
| C57BL/6J | Jackson Laboratory | 000664 | Wild type mice |
| Excel for Microsoft 365 | Microsoft Inc | Software package | |
| Fluorescein sodium salt | Sigma-Aldrich | 28803-100G | Fluorescent angiography |
| Matlab 8.0 | The MathWorks, Inc. | Software package | |
| Micron IV rodent fundus camera | Phoenix-Micron | 40-2200 | Fundus photography |
| Phenylephrine 10% w/v | Bausch & Lomb | Mydriatic agent | |
| Phosphate Buffered Saline - 100 tablets | Gibco | 18912-014 | Dilution |
| Sigmaplot 13 | Jandel Scientific Software | Software package | |
| S-Ketamine, 25 mg/mL | Pfizer Inc. | PAA104470 | Anesthesia IP |
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