Skewed adaptive immune responses are involved in AATD emphysema

Affiliations

• ¹ Pulmonary Division, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
• ² Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
• ³ Systems Onco-Immunology Laboratory, David J. Sugarbaker Division of Thoracic Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Pulmonary Pediatrics, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
• ⁵ Penn-CHOP Lung Biology Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• ⁶ Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• ⁷ Applied Chest Imaging Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• ⁸ Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
• ⁹ Center for Regenerative Medicine (CreM) of Boston University and Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
• ¹⁰ Pulmonary Division, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA fpolverino@copdnet.org.