About the Authors

Jianguo Zhuang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pathophysiology Program, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, NM, United States of America

Lei Zhao

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Pathophysiology Program, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, NM, United States of America

Xiuping Gao

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

Affiliation Pathophysiology Program, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, NM, United States of America

Fadi Xu

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

fxu@lrri.org

Affiliation Pathophysiology Program, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, NM, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.