About the Authors

Vicky Sender

Affiliation Division of Cellular Pneumology, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Borstel, Germany

Linda Lang

Affiliation Division of Cellular Pneumology, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Borstel, Germany

Cordula Stamme

cstamme@fz-borstel.de

Affiliations Division of Cellular Pneumology, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Borstel, Germany, Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VS CS. Performed the experiments: VS LL. Analyzed the data: VS CS. Wrote the paper: VS CS.