About the Authors

Lotte Jacobs

Affiliation Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Unit of Lung Toxicology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Jan Emmerechts

Affiliation Center for Molecular and Vascular Biology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Marc F. Hoylaerts

Affiliation Center for Molecular and Vascular Biology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Chantal Mathieu

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Peter H. Hoet

Affiliation Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Unit of Lung Toxicology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Benoit Nemery

ben.nemery@med.kuleuven.be

Affiliation Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Unit of Lung Toxicology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Tim S. Nawrot

Affiliations Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Unit of Lung Toxicology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BN TSN. Performed the experiments: LJ JE. Analyzed the data: TSN LJ. Wrote the paper: TSN LJ. Critical revision of the manuscript: CM MFH PHH.