About the Authors

Javier Milara

Contributed equally to this work with: Javier Milara, Sonia Contreras

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

xmilara@hotmail.com

Affiliations Pharmacy Unit, Hospital Clínico Universitario, Valencia, Spain, Health Research Institute INCLIVA, Valencia, Spain, CIBERES, Health Institute Carlos III, Valencia, Spain

Sonia Contreras

Contributed equally to this work with: Javier Milara, Sonia Contreras

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Alfredo de Diego

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Respiratory Unit, University and Polytechnic La Fe Hospital, Valencia, Spain

Marta Calbet

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Almirall, R&D Centre, Barcelona, Spain

Mònica Aparici

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Almirall, R&D Centre, Barcelona, Spain

Esteban Morcillo

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Health Research Institute INCLIVA, Valencia, Spain, CIBERES, Health Institute Carlos III, Valencia, Spain, Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Montserrat Miralpeix

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Almirall, R&D Centre, Barcelona, Spain

Julio Cortijo

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations CIBERES, Health Institute Carlos III, Valencia, Spain, Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, Research and Teaching Unit, University General Hospital Consortium, Valencia, Spain

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Marta Calbet, Mònica Aparici and Montserrat Miralpeix are employees of Almirall, the company that discovered the MABA mollecule AZD8999 analyzed in this work". This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.