Acute vaping exacerbates microbial pneumonia due to calcium (Ca²⁺) dysregulation

• Rui Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rui Zhang, Myles M. Jones

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, Ningxia, People’s Republic of China, Biomanufacturing Research Institute and Technology Enterprise (BRITE), North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Myles M. Jones ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rui Zhang, Myles M. Jones

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• De’Jana Parker,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Ronna E. Dornsife,

  Roles Data curation, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Biomanufacturing Research Institute and Technology Enterprise (BRITE), North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Nathan Wymer,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6908-399X

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• Rob U. Onyenwoke,

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

  Affiliations Biomanufacturing Research Institute and Technology Enterprise (BRITE), North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Vijay Sivaraman

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: vijay.sivaraman@nccu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9848-6640

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