About the Authors

Hartmut Grasemann

hartmut.grasemann@sickkids.ca

Affiliations Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Program in Physiology and Experimental Medicine, SickKids Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Darakhshanda Shehnaz

Affiliation Program in Physiology and Experimental Medicine, SickKids Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Masahiro Enomoto

Affiliation Program in Physiology and Experimental Medicine, SickKids Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Michael Leadley

Affiliation Program in Physiology and Experimental Medicine, SickKids Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Jaques Belik

Affiliation Program in Physiology and Experimental Medicine, SickKids Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Felix Ratjen

Affiliations Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Program in Physiology and Experimental Medicine, SickKids Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HG JB FR. Performed the experiments: DS ME ML. Analyzed the data: HG JB. Wrote the paper: HG JB FR.