About the Authors

Tamás Dolinay

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Unites States of America, Department of Pulmonology, University of Debrecen Medical and Health Science Center, Debrecen, Hungary

Wei Wu

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Unites States of America

Naftali Kaminski

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Unites States of America

Emeka Ifedigbo

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Unites States of America

A. Murat Kaynar

Affiliation Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Mária Szilasi

Affiliation Department of Pulmonology, University of Debrecen Medical and Health Science Center, Debrecen, Hungary

Simon C. Watkins

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Stefan W. Ryter

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Unites States of America

Alexander Hoetzel

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Unites States of America, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Augustine M. K. Choi

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: amchoi@rics.bwh.harvard.edu

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Unites States of America, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AC TD. Performed the experiments: WW TD EI AH. Analyzed the data: NK WW TD AH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SW NK WW AK MS. Wrote the paper: WW AC TD SR.