About the Authors

Verena Wilhelmi

Affiliation IUF - Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany

Ute Fischer

Affiliation Clinic of Pediatric Oncology, Haematology and Clinical Immunology, Centre of Child and Adolescent Health, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Heike Weighardt

Affiliation IUF - Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany

Klaus Schulze-Osthoff

Affiliation Interfaculty Institute for Biochemistry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Carmen Nickel

Affiliation Air Quality and Sustainable Nanotechnology, Institute of Energy and Environmental Technology, Duisburg, Germany

Burkhard Stahlmecke

Affiliation Air Quality and Sustainable Nanotechnology, Institute of Energy and Environmental Technology, Duisburg, Germany

Thomas A. J. Kuhlbusch

Affiliation Air Quality and Sustainable Nanotechnology, Institute of Energy and Environmental Technology, Duisburg, Germany

Agnes M. Scherbart

Affiliation IUF - Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany

Charlotte Esser

Affiliation IUF - Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany

Roel P. F. Schins

Affiliation IUF - Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany

Catrin Albrecht

catrin.albrecht@uni-duesseldorf.de

Affiliation IUF - Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VW UF RS CA. Performed the experiments: VW CN AS BS. Analyzed the data: VW UF TK RS CA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VW UF HW KSO TK BS CE RS CA. Wrote the paper: VW. Critical revision of the manuscript: UF HW KSO TK CE RS CA.