Establishment of a pulmonary epithelial barrier on biodegradable poly-L-lactic-acid membranes

• Salvatore Montesanto,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations The Brooke Laboratory, Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, Department of Civil, Environmental, Aerospace, Materials Engineering (DICAM), University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

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• Natalie P. Smithers,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation The Brooke Laboratory, Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

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• Fabio Bucchieri,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neurosciences (BIONEC), University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

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• Valerio Brucato,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Civil, Environmental, Aerospace, Materials Engineering (DICAM), University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy, Interuniversitary Consortium for Material Science and Technology (INSTM) – Research Unit of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

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• Vincenzo La Carrubba,

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

  Affiliations Department of Civil, Environmental, Aerospace, Materials Engineering (DICAM), University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy, Interuniversitary Consortium for Material Science and Technology (INSTM) – Research Unit of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

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• Donna E. Davies,

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

  Affiliations The Brooke Laboratory, Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

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• Franco Conforti

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

  * E-mail: F.Conforti@soton.ac.uk

  Affiliations The Brooke Laboratory, Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5305-3155

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