About the Authors
- Hans Van Remoortel
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Contributed equally to this work with: Hans Van Remoortel, Yogini Raste
Affiliation Faculty of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and Respiratory Division, UZ Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium
- Yogini Raste
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Contributed equally to this work with: Hans Van Remoortel, Yogini Raste
Affiliation NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit at Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust and Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Zafeiris Louvaris
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Affiliation Thorax Foundation, Research Centre of Intensive and Emergency Thoracic Medicine, and Department of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
- Santiago Giavedoni
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Affiliation ELEGI Colt Laboratory, Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Chris Burtin
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Affiliation Faculty of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and Respiratory Division, UZ Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium
- Daniel Langer
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Affiliation Faculty of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and Respiratory Division, UZ Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium
- Frederick Wilson
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Affiliation Precision Medicine, Pfizer Worldwide Research and Development, Sandwich, Kent, United Kingdom
- Roberto Rabinovich
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Affiliation ELEGI Colt Laboratory, Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Ioannis Vogiatzis
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Affiliation Thorax Foundation, Research Centre of Intensive and Emergency Thoracic Medicine, and Department of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
- Nicholas S. Hopkinson
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Affiliation NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit at Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust and Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Thierry Troosters
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* E-mail: thierry.troosters@med.kuleuven.be
Affiliation Faculty of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and Respiratory Division, UZ Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium
- on behalf of PROactive consortium
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¶Membership of the PROactive Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
Frederick Wilson is employed by Pfizer Ltd and holds share options in Pfizer Inc. There are no patents, products in development, or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: TT. Performed the experiments: HVR YR ZL SG CB DL FW RR IV NSH TT. Analyzed the data: HVR YR ZL SG CB DL FW RR IV NSH TT. Wrote the paper: HVR YR.