PA-X-associated early alleviation of the acute lung injury contributes to the attenuation of a highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus in mice.

"The precious contribution of the following colleagues is warmly acknowledged—Maozhi Hu, Qiuxiang Yan and Yipeng Sun. Maozhi Hu and Qiuxiang Yan are appreciated for their technical support of flow cytometry. Yipeng Sun is greatly acknowledged for her kindly help in histopathology observation. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31502076), by the Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (BK20150444), by the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (1501015B), by the Natural Science Foundation of the Higher Education Institutions of Jiangsu Province, China (15KJB230006), by the National Key Technologies R&D Program of China (2015BAD12B01), by the earmarked fund for Modern Agro-industry Technology Research System (nycytx-41-G07) and by A Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD)."