About the Authors
- Nicolas Mercado
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Affiliation Airway Disease Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Yasuo Kizawa
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Affiliation Department of Physiology and Anatomy, Nihon University School of Pharmacy, Funabashi, Chiba, Japan
- Keitaro Ueda
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Affiliation Department of Physiology and Anatomy, Nihon University School of Pharmacy, Funabashi, Chiba, Japan
- Yeping Xiong
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Affiliation Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Genki Kimura
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Affiliation Department of Physiology and Anatomy, Nihon University School of Pharmacy, Funabashi, Chiba, Japan
- Audric Moses
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Affiliation Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Jonathan M. Curtis
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Affiliation Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Kazuhiro Ito
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Affiliation Airway Disease Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Peter J. Barnes
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* E-mail: p.j.barnes@imperial.ac.uk
Affiliation Airway Disease Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
Co-author Dr. Kazuhiro Ito is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member and this work was funded by Daiichi Sankyo. 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: NM YX YK KI. Performed the experiments: NM GK AM JC KI KU. Analyzed the data: NM YK KI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GK JC KI PB. Wrote the paper: NM KI PB.