About the Authors

Vanessa De Vooght

Contributed equally to this work with: Vanessa De Vooght, Jeroen A. J. Vanoirbeek

peter.hoet@med.kuleuven.be

Affiliation Research Unit Lung Toxicology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Jeroen A. J. Vanoirbeek

Contributed equally to this work with: Vanessa De Vooght, Jeroen A. J. Vanoirbeek

Affiliation Research Unit Lung Toxicology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Katrien Luyts

Affiliation Research Unit Lung Toxicology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Steven Haenen

Affiliation Research Unit Lung Toxicology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Benoit Nemery

Affiliation Research Unit Lung Toxicology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Peter H. M. Hoet

Affiliation Research Unit Lung Toxicology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VDV JV BN PH. Performed the experiments: VDV JV KL SH. Analyzed the data: VDV JV KL. Wrote the paper: VDV JV BN PH.