About the Authors
- Karin Fredriksson
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Affiliation Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Jill A. Fielhaber
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Contributed equally to this work with: Jill A. Fielhaber, Jonathan K. Lam
Affiliation Critical Care and Respiratory Divisions and Meakins-Christie Laboratories, Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Jonathan K. Lam
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Contributed equally to this work with: Jill A. Fielhaber, Jonathan K. Lam
Affiliation Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Xianglan Yao
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Affiliation Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Katharine S. Meyer
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Affiliation Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Karen J. Keeran
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Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Medicine and Surgery, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Gayle J. Zywicke
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Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Medicine and Surgery, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Xuan Qu
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Affiliation Pathology Core Facility, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Zu-Xi Yu
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Affiliation Pathology Core Facility, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Joel Moss
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Affiliation Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Arnold S. Kristof
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Affiliation Critical Care and Respiratory Divisions and Meakins-Christie Laboratories, Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Stewart J. Levine
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* E-mail: levines@nhlbi.nih.gov
Affiliation Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Competing Interests
JM has received royalties from a patent (United States Provisional Patent Application No. 60/528,340 filed 09 Dec 2003) licensed from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that is related to the topic of this manuscript. ASK has received research support from the LAM Foundation, the Canadian Institutes of Health, and the NIH (R01 CA125436). ASK also has received funding through a NIH Intramural Research Program Contract. ASK has a patent on a topic related to this manuscript (United States Provisional Patent Application No. 60/528,340 filed 09 Dec 2003). SJL has two patents that are unrelated to the topic of this manuscript (United States Patent 7,135,303, Filed February 28, 2001 and United States Patent 7,655,752 B2, Filed March 24, 2006). These competing interests do not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the PLoS One guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: KF JAF JKL XY JM ASK SJL. Performed the experiments: KF JAF JKL KSM KJK GJZ XQ. Analyzed the data: KF JAF JKL XY ZY JM ASK SJL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KF JAF JKL XY KJK GJZ XQ ZY ASK SJL. Wrote the paper: KF JKL ASK SJL.