About the Authors
- István Vadász
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Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Justus Liebig University, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Giessen, Germany
- Laura A. Dada
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Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Arturo Briva
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Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Departamento de Fisiopatología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay
- Iiro Taneli Helenius
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Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America
- Kfir Sharabi
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Affiliation Department of Genetics, Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram, Jerusalem, Israel
- Lynn C. Welch
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Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Aileen M. Kelly
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Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Benno A. Grzesik
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Justus Liebig University, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Giessen, Germany
- G. R. Scott Budinger
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Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Jing Liu
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Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Werner Seeger
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Justus Liebig University, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Giessen, Germany
- Greg J. Beitel
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America
- Yosef Gruenbaum
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Affiliation Department of Genetics, Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram, Jerusalem, Israel
- Jacob I. Sznajder
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* E-mail: j-sznajder@northwestern.edu
Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: IV LAD YG JIS. Performed the experiments: IV LAD AB ITH KS LCW AMK BG. Analyzed the data: IV LAD YG JIS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GRSB JL WS GJB. Wrote the paper: IV LAD JIS GJB YG.