About the Authors

Chaomin Wu

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Center for Lung and Vascular Biology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Pulmonary Disease, Qingpu Branch of Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Colin E. Evans

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Center for Lung and Vascular Biology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, School of Biological Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Zhiyu Dai

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Center for Lung and Vascular Biology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Xiaojia Huang

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Center for Lung and Vascular Biology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Xianming Zhang

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Center for Lung and Vascular Biology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Hua Jin

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Center for Lung and Vascular Biology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Guochang Hu

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Yuanlin Song

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

You-Yang Zhao

yyzhao@uic.edu

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Center for Lung and Vascular Biology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: GH YS YYZ. Formal analysis: CW CEE ZD XH HJ XZ YYZ. Funding acquisition: YYZ. Investigation: CW CEE ZD XH XZ HJ. Project administration: YYZ. Supervision: YYZ. Writing – original draft: CW CEE.