About the Authors
- Shiro Mizuno
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Affiliations Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division and Victoria Johnson Center for Obstructive Lung Diseases, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, Division of Respiratory Disease, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa, Japan
- Masanori Yasuo
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Affiliation Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division and Victoria Johnson Center for Obstructive Lung Diseases, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
- Harm J. Bogaard
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Affiliation VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Donatas Kraskauskas
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Affiliation Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division and Victoria Johnson Center for Obstructive Lung Diseases, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
- Aysar Alhussaini
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Affiliation Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division and Victoria Johnson Center for Obstructive Lung Diseases, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
- Jose Gomez-Arroyo
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Affiliation Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division and Victoria Johnson Center for Obstructive Lung Diseases, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
- Daniela Farkas
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Affiliation Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division and Victoria Johnson Center for Obstructive Lung Diseases, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
- Laszlo Farkas
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Affiliation Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division and Victoria Johnson Center for Obstructive Lung Diseases, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
- Norbert F. Voelkel
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* E-mail: nvoelkel@mcvh-vcu.edu
Affiliation Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division and Victoria Johnson Center for Obstructive Lung Diseases, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SM HJB LF NFV. Performed the experiments: SM MY DK AA DF LF. Analyzed the data: SM LF NFV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DK JG-A DF. Wrote the paper: SM HJB NFV.