About the Authors

Sara Sánchez-Vidaurre

Affiliations Servei de Pneumologia, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain, CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias (Ciberes), Barcelona, Spain, Departament de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

María-Jesús Cruz

mj.cruz@vhir.org

Affiliations Servei de Pneumologia, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain, CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias (Ciberes), Barcelona, Spain

Susana Gómez-Ollés

Affiliations Servei de Pneumologia, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain, CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias (Ciberes), Barcelona, Spain

Ferran Morell

Affiliations Servei de Pneumologia, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain, CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias (Ciberes), Barcelona, Spain

Xavier Muñoz

Affiliations Servei de Pneumologia, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain, CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias (Ciberes), Barcelona, Spain, Departament de Biologia Cellular, Fisiologia, Immunologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MJC FM XM. Performed the experiments: SSV SGO. Analyzed the data: SSV MJC SGO FM XM. Wrote the paper: MJC FM XM. Contributed to data collection: SSV SGO. Interpretation of data: SSV SGO.