About the Authors
- Michaela Lang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Michaela Lang, Baktybek Kojonazarov
Affiliation University of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Giessen, Germany
- Baktybek Kojonazarov
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Contributed equally to this work with: Michaela Lang, Baktybek Kojonazarov
Affiliation University of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Giessen, Germany
- Xia Tian
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Affiliation University of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Giessen, Germany
- Anuar Kalymbetov
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Affiliation University of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Giessen, Germany
- Norbert Weissmann
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Affiliation University of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Giessen, Germany
- Friedrich Grimminger
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Affiliation University of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Giessen, Germany
- Axel Kretschmer
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Affiliation Bayer HealthCare, Wuppertal, Germany
- Johannes-Peter Stasch
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Affiliation Bayer HealthCare, Wuppertal, Germany
- Werner Seeger
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Affiliations University of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Giessen, Germany, Department of Lung Development and Remodeling, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany
- Hossein Ardeschir Ghofrani
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Affiliation University of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Giessen, Germany
- Ralph Theo Schermuly
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* E-mail: ralph.schermuly@innere.med.uni-giessen.de
Affiliations University of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Giessen, Germany, Department of Lung Development and Remodeling, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany
Competing Interests
JPS is employee of Bayer HealthCare, who also provided an unrestricted research grant. RTS declares he has been a consultant for Bayer Healthcare and has received speakers bureau (honoraria) from Bayer Healthcare. RTS also declares he has received grant/research support from Bayer HealthCare, Excellence Cluster Cardiopulmonary System, German Research Foundation, and the University of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center. HAG declares he has been a consultant for Bayer Healthcare and has received speakers bureau (honoraria) from Bayer Healthcare. HAG also declares he has received unrestricted research grant from Bayer Healthcare (related to this study), supports/grants Excellence Cluster Cardiopulmonary System, German Research Foundation, and the University of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center. FG declares he has been a consultant for Bayer Healthcare and has received grant/research support from Excellence Cluster Cardiopulmonary System, German Research Foundation, and the University of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors. ML, BK, NW and WS have declared that no competing interests exist.
ML, BK, NW and WS have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: NW FG WS HAG RTS. Performed the experiments: ML BK XT AK. Analyzed the data: ML BK RTS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AK JPS. Wrote the paper: ML BK RTS.