About the Authors
- Saskia A. Overbeek
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Affiliation Division of Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Saskia Braber
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Affiliation Division of Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Pim J. Koelink
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Affiliation Division of Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Paul A. J. Henricks
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Affiliation Division of Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Esmaeil Mortaz
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Affiliations Division of Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Chronic Respiratory Disease Research center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and lung disease (NRITLD), Masih Daneshvari Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Adele T. LoTam Loi
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Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Patricia L. Jackson
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Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine and UAB Lung Health Center, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Johan Garssen
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Affiliations Division of Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Danone Research – Centre for Specialised Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Gerry T. M. Wagenaar
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Wim Timens
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Affiliation Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- Leo Koenderman
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Affiliation Chronic Respiratory Disease Research center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and lung disease (NRITLD), Masih Daneshvari Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical sciences, Tehran, Iran
- J. Edwin Blalock
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Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Aletta D. Kraneveld
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Affiliation Division of Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Gert Folkerts
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* E-mail: G.Folkerts@uu.nl
Affiliation Division of Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Competing Interests
JG is employed by a commercial company, Danone Research. However, this does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SAO PAJH JG ADK GF. Performed the experiments: SAO SB PJK PJ EM. Analyzed the data: SAO SB PJK PAJH GTMW ADK GF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ATL WT LK JEB. Wrote the paper: SAO PAJH ADK GF.