Effective protection of photoreceptors using an inflammation-responsive hydrogel to attenuate outer retinal degeneration.

"code availability the underlying code including matlab codes utilized to analyze spiking activities of ganglion cells is not publicly available but may be made available to qualified researchers on reasonable request from the corresponding author."

"Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"This work was supported in part by KIST Institutional Program (2E32551 to S.J.O. and M.I.). This work was also supported in part by NRF (National Research Foundation) of Korea grants funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT (RS-2023-00208795 to S.J.O., and 2020R1C1C1006065, 2021M3F3A2A01037366, and 2022M3E5E8017395 to M.I.). Also, this work was supported by a grant of the Korea Health Technology R&D Project through the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI), funded by the Ministry of Health & Welfare, Republic of Korea (HI22C1394 to K.L.). Lastly, this work was supported in part by an NRF grant funded by the Korean Government (2017-Global Ph.D. Fellowship Program to H.K.). The authors are grateful to Seong-Woo Kim at the Department of Ophthalmology, Korea University College of Medicine for his generous contribution to IOP measurement and helpful discussion on our experimental results."