Nucleic acid sensor STING drives remodeling and its inhibition enhances steroid responsiveness in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

• Bushra Mdkhana,

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

  Affiliation Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Narjes Saheb Sharif-Askari,

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

  Affiliations Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Department of Family and Community Medicine and Behavioural Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Rakhee K. Ramakrishnan,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Baraa Khalid Al-Sheakly,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Shirin Hafezi,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Fatemeh Saheb Sharif-Askari,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Department of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmacotherapeutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Khuloud Bajbouj,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Department of Basic Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Qutayba Hamid,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Meakins-Christie Laboratories, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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• Rabih Halwani

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rhalwani@sharjah.ac.ae

  Affiliations Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Prince Abdullah Ben Khaled Celiac Disease Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6516-7771

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