The developmental Wnt signaling pathway effector β-catenin/TCF mediates hepatic functions of the sex hormone estradiol in regulating lipid metabolism

• Lili Tian ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lili Tian, Weijuan Shao

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Division of Advanced Diagnostics, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada, Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Banting and Best Diabetes Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0556-4449

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• Weijuan Shao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lili Tian, Weijuan Shao

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Advanced Diagnostics, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada, Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Banting and Best Diabetes Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2641-4186

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• Wilfred Ip,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Queens University

  Affiliation Division of Advanced Diagnostics, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada

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• Zhuolun Song,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliations Division of Advanced Diagnostics, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada, Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Banting and Best Diabetes Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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• Yasaman Badakhshi,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliations Division of Advanced Diagnostics, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada, Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Banting and Best Diabetes Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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• Tianru Jin

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tianru.jin@utoronto.ca

  Affiliations Division of Advanced Diagnostics, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada, Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Banting and Best Diabetes Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0307-7391

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