About the Authors

Laura Brullé

laura.brulle@cnrs-orleans.fr

Affiliations Centre d’Imagerie du Petit Animal (CIPA) TAAM, UPS44 CNRS, Orléans, France, Centre de Recherche Biologique (CERB), Baugy, France

Marc Vandamme

Affiliations Centre d’Imagerie du Petit Animal (CIPA) TAAM, UPS44 CNRS, Orléans, France, GREMI UMR-7344 CNRS, Université d'Orléans, Orléans, France, GERMITEC SAS, Clichy, France

Delphine Riès

Affiliation GREMI UMR-7344 CNRS, Université d'Orléans, Orléans, France

Eric Martel

Affiliation Centre de Recherche Biologique (CERB), Baugy, France

Eric Robert

Affiliation GREMI UMR-7344 CNRS, Université d'Orléans, Orléans, France

Stéphanie Lerondel

Affiliation Centre d’Imagerie du Petit Animal (CIPA) TAAM, UPS44 CNRS, Orléans, France

Valérie Trichet

Affiliation INSERM, UMR957, Université de Nantes, Faculté de médecine, Nantes, France

Serge Richard

Affiliation Centre de Recherche Biologique (CERB), Baugy, France

Jean-Michel Pouvesle

Affiliation GREMI UMR-7344 CNRS, Université d'Orléans, Orléans, France

Alain Le Pape

Affiliations Centre d’Imagerie du Petit Animal (CIPA) TAAM, UPS44 CNRS, Orléans, France, Centre d’Etude des Pathologies Respiratoires (CEPR), INSERM UMR1100-EA6305, Université François Rabelais, Tours, France

Competing Interests

Laura Brullé declares a competing interest as a full-time employee of CERB during the preparation of her PhD thesis and Marc Vandamme as a full-time employee of GERMITEC during the preparation of his PhD thesis. 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: LB MV DR ER JMP ALP EM. Performed the experiments: LB DR. Analyzed the data: LB ALP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ER SR SL VT. Wrote the paper: LB MV ALP.