E-cigarette aerosol exposure of pulmonary surfactant impairs its surface tension reducing function

• Emma Graham ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: egraha59@uwo.ca (EG); rvelhui@uwo.ca (RV)

  Affiliations Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Lawson Health Research Institute, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5817-1820

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• Lynda McCaig,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliations Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Lawson Health Research Institute, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada

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• Gloria Shui-Kei Lau,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

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• Akash Tejura,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

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• Anne Cao,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

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• Yi Y. Zuo,

  Roles Resources, Software, Validation

  Affiliations Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

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• Ruud Veldhuizen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: egraha59@uwo.ca (EG); rvelhui@uwo.ca (RV)

  Affiliations Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Lawson Health Research Institute, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8802-1580

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