About the Authors
- Nicolas Mercado
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Affiliation Airway Disease Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Amir Hakim
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Affiliations Airway Disease Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, Biomedical Research Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital and Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Yoshiki Kobayashi
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Affiliation Airway Disease Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Sally Meah
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Affiliations Airway Disease Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, Biomedical Research Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital and Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Omar S. Usmani
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Affiliations Airway Disease Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, Biomedical Research Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital and Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Kian Fan Chung
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Affiliations Airway Disease Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, Biomedical Research Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital and Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Peter J. Barnes
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Affiliation Airway Disease Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Kazuhiro Ito
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* E-mail: k.ito@imperial.ac.uk
Affiliation Airway Disease Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
KI is currently an employee of RespiVert Ltd with honorary contract of Imperial College. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: NM KFC PJB KI. Performed the experiments: NM YK AH. Analyzed the data: NM YK AH KI. Wrote the paper: NM OU KFC PJB KI. Recruitment of patients: SM KFC.