George, Leema
Mitra, Ankita
Thimraj, Tania A.
Irmler, Martin
Vishweswaraiah, Sangeetha
Lunding, Lars
Hühn, Dorothea
Madurga, Alicia
Beckers, Johannes
Fehrenbach, Heinz
Upadhyay, Swapna
Schulz, Holger
Leikauf, George D.
Ganguly, Koustav
Funding for this research was provided by:
Science and Engineering Research Board (SB/SO/AS-026/2013)
Department of Biotechnology , Ministry of Science and Technology (BT/PR12987/INF/22/205/2015)
VINNOVA (2016-01951)
National Institutes of Health (ES015675, HL077763, and HL085655)
European Respiratory Society (ERS-LTRF-2015-3567, ERS-STRF-2014-7156)
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-SRF: [9/1045(0007) 2K14-EMR-1],)
Fulbright Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship (IIE grantee id 15151382)
Helmholtz Portfolio Theme 'Metabolic Dysfunction and Common Disease’ (he Helmholtz Alliance ‘Imaging and Curing Environmental Metabolic Diseases, ICEMED)
German Center of Lung Research (German Center of Lung Research (DZL))
German Center of Lung Research (German Center of Lung Research (DZL))
Article History
Received: 25 April 2017
Accepted: 25 July 2017
First Online: 9 August 2017
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Human participants: human data or human tissue: not applicable.Mice: The use of animals was in accordance with the German Law of Animal Protection and approved by the Bavarian Animal Research Authority and the Animal Research Authority of Schleswig-Holstein (reference number V312–72241.123-3. All procedures were also approved by IACUC of the University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Frozen and paraffin embedded tissues were procured to carry out experiments at SRM University, India according to the Institutional Animal Ethics Committee (IAEC) permission [79/IAEC/2013].
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