Contribution of epidermal growth factor (EGF) in the treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania major in BALB/c mice

• Mohammad Saberi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammad Saberi, Alireza Latifi, Majid Golkar

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Alireza Latifi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammad Saberi, Alireza Latifi, Majid Golkar

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Majid Golkar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammad Saberi, Alireza Latifi, Majid Golkar

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

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

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• Pezhman Fard-Esfahani,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

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• Sina Mohtasebi,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Aref Teimouri,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

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• Mohammad Javad Abbaszadeh Afshar,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Jiroft University of Medical Sciences, Jiroft, Iran

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• Elham Kazemirad ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kazemirad@tums.ac.ir, ekazemirad@yahoo.com (EK); mohebali@tums.ac.ir (MM)

  ¶‡ EK and MM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Mehdi Mohebali

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kazemirad@tums.ac.ir, ekazemirad@yahoo.com (EK); mohebali@tums.ac.ir (MM)

  ¶‡ EK and MM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Center for Research of Endemic Parasites of Iran, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4164-9514

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