Troglitazone Attenuates TGF-β1-Induced EMT in Alveolar Epithelial Cells via a PPARγ-Independent Mechanism

• Beiyun Zhou ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Beiyun Zhou, Stephen T. Buckley

  Affiliation Will Rogers Institute Pulmonary Research Center, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Stephen T. Buckley ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Beiyun Zhou, Stephen T. Buckley

  Affiliation School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

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• Vipul Patel,

  Affiliation Will Rogers Institute Pulmonary Research Center, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Yixin Liu,

  Affiliation Will Rogers Institute Pulmonary Research Center, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Jiao Luo,

  Affiliation Will Rogers Institute Pulmonary Research Center, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Manda Sai Krishnaveni,

  Affiliation Will Rogers Institute Pulmonary Research Center, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Mihaela Ivan,

  Affiliation Will Rogers Institute Pulmonary Research Center, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Lucas DeMaio,

  Affiliation Will Rogers Institute Pulmonary Research Center, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Kwang-Jin Kim,

  Affiliation Will Rogers Institute Pulmonary Research Center, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Carsten Ehrhardt,

  Affiliation School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

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• Edward D. Crandall,

  Affiliation Will Rogers Institute Pulmonary Research Center, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Zea Borok

  * E-mail: boro@usc.edu

  Affiliations Will Rogers Institute Pulmonary Research Center, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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