At the design level, we investigated the social vulnerability index in two separate samples, as described.
GLDH activity was measured in plasma samples, as described elsewhere.
DNA fragmentation was determined using a TUNEL assay in deparaffinized liver samples, as described elsewhere.
Thermophilic actinomycetes were isolated from soil samples as described previously (Tseng et al. 2007).
hMSCs were isolated from the BM samples as described previously [3].
ELISpot assays were also performed on induced sputum samples as described previously [21].
Nucleic acids were extracted from 50-µL blood samples as described by Boom and others [32].
Nucleic acid was extracted from 50-µL blood samples as described by Boom et al.[25].
MSCs were isolated from human bone marrow samples as described by Pittenger et al. [14].
PLS models were created for random cross-validation subsets of the samples as described above.
Metabolite measurements were performed both on cell lysates and spent medium samples as described previously [18].
