Receptor for advanced glycation endproducts (RAGE) maintains pulmonary structure and regulates the response to cigarette smoke

• Lisa Wolf,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine V – Pulmonology, Allergology and Critical Care Medicine, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany

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• Christian Herr,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine V – Pulmonology, Allergology and Critical Care Medicine, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany

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• Julia Niederstraßer,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine V – Pulmonology, Allergology and Critical Care Medicine, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany

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• Christoph Beisswenger,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine V – Pulmonology, Allergology and Critical Care Medicine, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany

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• Robert Bals

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: robert.bals@uks.eu

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine V – Pulmonology, Allergology and Critical Care Medicine, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany

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