About the Authors
- Allison L. Speer
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Contributed equally to this work with: Allison L. Speer, Denise Al Alam
Affiliation Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Department of Pediatric Surgery/Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Denise Al Alam
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Contributed equally to this work with: Allison L. Speer, Denise Al Alam
Affiliation Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Department of Pediatric Surgery/Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Frederic G. Sala
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Affiliation Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Department of Pediatric Surgery/Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Henri R. Ford
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Affiliation Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Department of Pediatric Surgery/Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Saverio Bellusci
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Affiliations Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Department of Pediatric Surgery/Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, University of Giessen Lung Center, Department of Internal Medicine II, Giessen, Germany
- Tracy C. Grikscheit
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* E-mail: tgrikscheit@chla.usc.edu
Affiliation Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Department of Pediatric Surgery/Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflict: SB currently serves as an editor of PLOS ONE. The authors would like to confirm that 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: ALS FGS DA HRF SB TG. Performed the experiments: ALS FGS DA. Analyzed the data: ALS FGS DA HRF SB TG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ALS HRF SB TG. Wrote the paper: ALS FGS DA HRF SB TG.