About the Authors

Innokentij Jurastow

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology, German Center for Lung Research, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, Excellence Cluster Cardio-Pulmonary Institute, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Charité Campus Virchow Klinikum, Berlin, Germany

Silke Wiegand

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology, German Center for Lung Research, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, Excellence Cluster Cardio-Pulmonary Institute, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Amir Rafiq

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology, German Center for Lung Research, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Anna Zakrzewicz

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Institute of Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany

Affiliation Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Giessen, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

Sandra Engel

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Adriano Sanna

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology, German Center for Lung Research, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, Excellence Cluster Cardio-Pulmonary Institute, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Daniel von der Beck

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Excellence Cluster Cardio-Pulmonary Institute, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Charité Campus Virchow Klinikum, Berlin, Germany

Walter Klepetko

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Vienna General Hospital, Vienna, Austria

Andreas Hecker

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Giessen, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

Andreas Günther

Roles Investigation, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Interstitial and Rare Lung Diseases, University of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, member of the German Center of Lung Research; Cardiopulmonary Institute; Institute for Lung Health; European IPF Registry and Biobank; Lung Clinic Agaplesion Evangelisches Krankenhaus Mittelhessen, Giessen, Germany

Moritz Bünemann

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Gabriela Krasteva-Christ

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, School of Medicine, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany, Center for Gender-Specific Biology and Medicine (CGBM), Saarland University, Homburg, Germany, PharmaScienceHub (PSH), Saarbrücken, Germany

Maryam Keshavarz

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

maryam.keshavarz@med.uni-augsburg.de

Current address: Anatomy and Cell Biology, Institute of Theoretical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

Affiliations Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology, German Center for Lung Research, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, Excellence Cluster Cardio-Pulmonary Institute, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.