Cholesterol esterification inhibition and gemcitabine synergistically suppress pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma proliferation

• Junjie Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Junjie Li, Xiaochao Qu

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

  Affiliation Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• Xiaochao Qu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Junjie Li, Xiaochao Qu

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

  Affiliation School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

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• Jie Tian,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliations School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Jian-Ting Zhang,

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

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

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• Ji-Xin Cheng

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

  * E-mail: jxcheng@bu.edu.

  Affiliations Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, Center for Cancer Research, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5607-6683

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