Boehm, Mario
Arnold, Nadine
Braithwaite, Adam
Pickworth, Josephine
Lu, Changwu
Novoyatleva, Tatyana
Kiely, David G.
Grimminger, Friedrich
Ghofrani, Hossein A.
Weissmann, Norbert
Seeger, Werner
Lawrie, Allan
Schermuly, Ralph T.
Kojonazarov, Baktybek
Funding for this research was provided by:
Excellence Cluster Cardio-Pulmonary System
Universities Giessen and Marburg Lung Center
British Heart Foundation (FS/13/48/30453)
German Center for Lung Research
Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1213
British Heart Foundation Project Grant (PG/06/125/21633)
National Institute for Health Research (Sheffield Clinical Research Facility)
Article History
Received: 3 July 2017
Accepted: 23 February 2018
First Online: 2 March 2018
Change Date: 20 July 2022
Change Type: Correction
Change Details: A Correction to this paper has been published:
Change Details: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12890-022-01978-0
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All experiments were performed according to the institutional guidelines that comply with national and international regulations (EU directive 2010/63). The local authorities for animal research approved the study protocol (Regierungspräsidium Giessen, Germany, Gi 32/2013 and The UK Home Office under PPL 40/3517).
: Not applicable.
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