About the Authors
- Michelangelo Di Giuseppe
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Affiliation Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Federica Gambelli
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Affiliation Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Gary W. Hoyle
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Affiliation Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Informational Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America
- Giuseppe Lungarella
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Affiliation Department of Physiopathology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
- Sean M. Studer
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Affiliation Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Disease, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Thomas Richards
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Affiliation Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Disease, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Sam Yousem
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Ken McCurry
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Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- James Dauber
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Affiliation Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Disease, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Naftali Kaminski
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Affiliation Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Disease, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- George Leikauf
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Affiliation Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Luis A. Ortiz
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* E-mail: lao1@pitt.edu
Affiliations Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Disease, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: FG GWH GDL LAO. Performed the experiments: MDG FG GWH SAY NK GDL LAO. Analyzed the data: MDG FG GWH GL SMS TJR SAY JD NK GDL LAO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MDG GWH GL SMS SAY KRM JD NK GDL LAO. Wrote the paper: NK GDL LAO. Enrolled patients: LAO.