About the Authors

Anne Mehl

Affiliations Program in Physiology and Experimental Medicine, SickKids Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Immunology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Peyman Ghorbani

Affiliation Program in Physiology and Experimental Medicine, SickKids Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

David Douda

Affiliations Program in Physiology and Experimental Medicine, SickKids Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hailu Huang

Affiliation Program in Physiology and Experimental Medicine, SickKids Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Nades Palaniyar

Affiliation Program in Physiology and Experimental Medicine, SickKids Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Felix Ratjen

Affiliations Program in Physiology and Experimental Medicine, SickKids Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hartmut Grasemann

hartmut.grasemann@sickkids.ca

Affiliations Program in Physiology and Experimental Medicine, SickKids Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HG FR AM NP. Performed the experiments: HH DD PG AM. Analyzed the data: FR HG PG AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HG. Wrote the paper: FR HG AM.