About the Authors

Sophie Seehase

Affiliations Airway Research, Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine, Hannover, Germany, Pathology Unit, German Primate Center, Leibniz-Institute for Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany

Hans-Dieter Lauenstein

Affiliations Airway Research, Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine, Hannover, Germany, Pathology Unit, German Primate Center, Leibniz-Institute for Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany

Christina Schlumbohm

Affiliation Encepharm GmbH, Göttingen, Germany

Simone Switalla

Affiliation Airway Research, Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine, Hannover, Germany

Vanessa Neuhaus

Affiliation Airway Research, Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine, Hannover, Germany

Christine Förster

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Klinikum Region Hannover Klinikum Nordstadt, Hannover, Germany

Hans-Gerd Fieguth

Affiliation Division of Thoracic Surgery, Klinikum Region Hannover Klinikum Oststadt-Heidehaus, Hannover, Germany

Olaf Pfennig

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Klinikum Region Hannover Klinikum Nordstadt, Hannover, Germany

Eberhard Fuchs

Affiliation Encepharm GmbH, Göttingen, Germany

Franz-Josef Kaup

Affiliation Pathology Unit, German Primate Center, Leibniz-Institute for Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany

Martina Bleyer

Affiliation Pathology Unit, German Primate Center, Leibniz-Institute for Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany

Jens M. Hohlfeld

Affiliation Airway Research, Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine, Hannover, Germany

Armin Braun

Affiliation Airway Research, Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine, Hannover, Germany

Katherina Sewald

Contributed equally to this work with: Katherina Sewald, Sascha Knauf

sascha.knauf@item.fraunhofer.de (SK); katherina.sewald@item.fraunhofer.de (KS)

Affiliation Airway Research, Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine, Hannover, Germany

Sascha Knauf

Contributed equally to this work with: Katherina Sewald, Sascha Knauf

sascha.knauf@item.fraunhofer.de (SK); katherina.sewald@item.fraunhofer.de (KS)

Affiliations Airway Research, Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine, Hannover, Germany, Pathology Unit, German Primate Center, Leibniz-Institute for Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany

Competing Interests

Fraunhofer ITEM is a public non-profit research organisation doing contract research for e.g. pharmaceutical and biotech industry. The institution of JMH has received research grants from AstraZeneca, Novartis, Nycomed, and Pfizer to conduct clinical trials using LPS-induced inflammation. Encepharm is a research organisation doing contract research for e.g. pharmaceutical and biotech industry. The institution has received no grants to conduct preclinical trials using LPS-induced inflammation in marmoset monkeys. Encepharm confirms that this does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors. CF declares affiliation to the company Klinikum Region Hannover GmbH. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: S. Seehase HDL KS AB SK. Performed the experiments: S. Seehase S. Switalla VN HDL SK CS. Analyzed the data: S. Seehase. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CF CS EF FJK MB JMH HGF OP. Wrote the paper: S. Seehase KS SK AB.