THE LOSS OF INFRARED LIGHT SENSITIVITY OF PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS MEASURED WITH TWO-PHOTON EXCITATION AS AN INDICATOR OF DIABETIC RETINOPATHY: A Pilot Study.

"K. Palczewski is a Chief Scientific Officer and receives consulting fees from Polgenix, Inc. G. Palczewska owns a patent on systems and methods of infrared psychophysical measurement. G.U. Auffarth and R. Khoramnia report grants, lecture fees, and nonfinancial support from Alcon, grants, lecture fees, and nonfinancial support from Oculentis, grants from Carl Zeiss Meditec, grants, lecture fees, and nonfinancial support from Hoya, grants and nonfinancial support from Kowa, grants and nonfinancial support from Ophtec, grants from Physiol, grants from Powervision, grants, lecture fees, and nonfinancial support from Rayner, grants, lecture fees, and nonfinancial support from SIFI, grants, lecture fees, and nonfinancial support from Johnson&Johnson, grants from Acufocus, and lecture fees, and nonfinancial support from Polytech. The remaining authors have no financial/conflicting interests to disclose."

"Supported by a research grant from Klaus Tschira Stiftung (G.U.A. and K.P.). This research was also supported in part by grants from the National Institutes of Health (EY U01EY025451 to K.P.), Research to Prevent Blindness to the Department of Ophthalmology at UCI, and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (K.P.)."