About the Authors

Brian J. McHugh

Brian.McHugh@ed.ac.uk

Affiliation Medical Research Council Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom

Amanda Murdoch

Affiliation Medical Research Council Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom

Christopher Haslett

Affiliation Medical Research Council Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom

Tariq Sethi

Affiliation Departments of Respiratory Medicine and Allergy, Kings College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BMH CH TS. Performed the experiments: BMH AM. Analyzed the data: BMH TS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BMH TS. Wrote the paper: BMH TS.