TCDD Promotes Lung Tumors via Attenuation of Apoptosis through Activation of the Akt and ERK1/2 Signaling Pathways

• Rong-Jane Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rong-Jane Chen, Chih-Hsiung Wu

  Affiliations Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, National Cheng Kung University Medical College, Tainan, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Shih-He Siao,

  Affiliation Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, National Cheng Kung University Medical College, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Chung-Huei Hsu,

  Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Chu-Yung Chang,

  Affiliation Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, National Cheng Kung University Medical College, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Louis W. Chang,

  Affiliation National Environmental Health Research Center, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan Town, Taiwan

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• Chih-Hsiung Wu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rong-Jane Chen, Chih-Hsiung Wu

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University-Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Center of Excellence for Cancer Research, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Pinpin Lin ,

  * E-mail: yjwang@mail.ncku.edu.tw (Y-JW); pplin@nhri.org.tw (PL)

  Affiliations Division of Environmental Health and Occupational Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan Town, Taiwan, National Environmental Health Research Center, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan Town, Taiwan

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• Ying-Jan Wang

  * E-mail: yjwang@mail.ncku.edu.tw (Y-JW); pplin@nhri.org.tw (PL)

  Affiliations Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, National Cheng Kung University Medical College, Tainan, Taiwan, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan

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