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Article History

Received: 29 November 2018

Accepted: 19 August 2019

First Online: 29 August 2019

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Institutional review boards at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the University of Michigan approved all experiments with primary human lung tissues and cell lines derived from these tissues. All patients were informed and written consent to participate was obtained prior to inclusion in the studies (Approval number: Pro00034067 and Pro 00044849). All animal studies followed the guidelines of the Animal Welfare Act and the Public Health Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals of the United Sates and were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (IACUC005136).

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: Authors declare that they have no competing interests.