About the Authors
- Shikha Bhatia
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Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Mingjian Fei
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Affiliations Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Manohar Yarlagadda
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Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Zengbiao Qi
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Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Shizuo Akira
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Affiliation Laboratory of Host Defense, WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka, Japan
- Shinobu Saijo
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Affiliations Center for Experimental Medicine and Systems Biology, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama, Japan
- Yoichiro Iwakura
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Affiliations Center for Experimental Medicine and Systems Biology, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama, Japan
- Nico van Rooijen
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Vrije Universiteit, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Gregory A. Gibson
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Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Claudette M. St. Croix
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Affiliation Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Anuradha Ray
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Affiliations Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Prabir Ray
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* E-mail: rayp@pitt.edu
Affiliations Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: PR AR SB. Performed the experiments: SB MF MY ZQ CMSC GAG. Analyzed the data: SB PR AR CMSC GAG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SA SS YI. Wrote the paper: SB PR AR. Provided clodronate filled-liposomes: NvR.