About the Authors

María Pino-Yanes

Affiliations CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Research Unit, Hospital Universitario N.S. de Candelaria, Tenerife, Spain

Almudena Corrales

Affiliations CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Research Unit, Hospital Universitario N.S. de Candelaria, Tenerife, Spain

Santiago Basaldúa

Affiliation Research Unit, Hospital Universitario N.S. de Candelaria, Tenerife, Spain

Alexis Hernández

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Toxicología y Ciencias Forenses, Delegación de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain

Luisa Guerra

Affiliation Hematology Service, Hospital Universitario Dr. Negrín, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Jesús Villar

Affiliations CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Multidisciplinary Organ Dysfunction Evaluation Research Network, Research Unit, Hospital Universitario Dr. Negrín, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, Keenan Research Center, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada

Carlos Flores

cflores@ull.es

Affiliations CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Research Unit, Hospital Universitario N.S. de Candelaria, Tenerife, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CF. Performed the experiments: AC MP-Y AH. Analyzed the data: MP-Y CF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SB AH LG JV. Wrote the paper: MP-Y CF.