Single-cell transcriptomics reveals stepwise transformation of epithelial cells into Non-Professional Phagocytes

• Caique Almeida Machado Costa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tulane University School of Medicine, Tulane Cancer Center, United States of America

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• Cristian Alejandro Santiago-Santiago,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tulane University School of Medicine, Tulane Cancer Center, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0007-0848-8169

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• Yi-Chun Huang,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tulane University School of Medicine, Tulane Cancer Center, United States of America

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• Wu-Min Deng

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wdeng7@tulane.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tulane University School of Medicine, Tulane Cancer Center, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9098-9769

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