Similarity of sputum mediator signatures between e-cigarette users and COPD depends on GOLD stage and type of e-cigarette: a pilot study

• Elise Hickman,

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

  Affiliations Curriculum in Toxicology and Environmental Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma, and Lung Biology, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6152-050X

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• William Dabbs,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma, and Lung Biology, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Heather Wells,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma, and Lung Biology, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• R. Graham Barr,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Prescott Woodruff,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine and Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Jill Ohar,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy, Immunologic Diseases Section, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Fernando J. Martinez,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Russell Bowler,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

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• Christopher B. Cooper,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departments of Medicine and Physiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Jeffrey L. Curtis,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Medical Service, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5191-4847

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• J. Michael Wells,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9612-5454

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• Wassim W. Labaki,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

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• Ilona Jaspers,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Curriculum in Toxicology and Environmental Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma, and Lung Biology, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Julia E. Rager,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Curriculum in Toxicology and Environmental Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma, and Lung Biology, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Neil E. Alexis

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

  * E-mail: neil_alexis@med.unc.edu

  Affiliations Curriculum in Toxicology and Environmental Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma, and Lung Biology, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9417-8269

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