About the Authors

Elke Kuypers

Contributed equally to this work with: Elke Kuypers, Reint K. Jellema

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, School of Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Reint K. Jellema

Contributed equally to this work with: Elke Kuypers, Reint K. Jellema

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, School of Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Daan R. M. G. Ophelders

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, School of Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Jeroen Dudink

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus Medical Center-Sophia, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Maria Nikiforou

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, School of Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Tim G. A. M. Wolfs

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, School of Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Ilias Nitsos

Affiliations School of Women’s and Infants’ Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, Ritchie Centre, Monash Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia

J. Jane Pillow

Affiliation School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Graeme R. Polglase

Affiliations School of Women’s and Infants’ Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, Ritchie Centre, Monash Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia

Matthew W. Kemp

Affiliation School of Women’s and Infants’ Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Masatoshi Saito

Affiliation School of Women’s and Infants’ Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

John P. Newnham

Affiliation School of Women’s and Infants’ Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Alan H. Jobe

Affiliations School of Women’s and Infants’ Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, Division of Pulmonary Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Suhas G. Kallapur

Affiliations School of Women’s and Infants’ Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, Division of Pulmonary Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Boris W. Kramer

b.kramer@mumc.nl

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, School of Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EK RJ MK IN JP GP JN AJ SK BK MS. Performed the experiments: EK DO MN MK IN JP GP JN MS. Analyzed the data: EK RJ JD TW AJ SK BK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JD MK IN JP GP JN. Wrote the manuscript: EK RJ TW AJ SK BK.