Leptin Promotes Fetal Lung Maturity and Upregulates SP-A Expression in Pulmonary Alveoli Type-II Epithelial Cells Involving TTF-1 Activation

• Hui Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hui Chen, Jian-Ping Zhang

  Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Key Laboratory of Malignant Tumor Gene Regulation and Target Therapy of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

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• Jian-Ping Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hui Chen, Jian-Ping Zhang

  Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Key Laboratory of Malignant Tumor Gene Regulation and Target Therapy of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

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• Hui Huang,

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

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• Zhen-Hua Wang,

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

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• Rui Cheng,

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Zhongshan Medical School, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

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• Wei-Bin Cai

  * E-mail: caiwb@mail.sysu.edu.cn

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Zhongshan Medical School, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Center for Disease Model Animals, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

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