The protective effect of the EP2 receptor on TGF-β1 induced podocyte injury via the PI3K / Akt signaling pathway

• Jing Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jing Liu, Yi-de Zhang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology, the Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China

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• Yi-de Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jing Liu, Yi-de Zhang

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology, the Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China

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• Xiao-lan Chen ,

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

  * E-mail: chenxl8448@sina.com

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology, the Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8375-5166

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• Xue-ling Zhu,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology, the Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China

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• Xu Chen,

  Roles Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology, the Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China

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• Jian-hua Wu,

  Roles Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology, the Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China

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• Nai-feng Guo

  Roles Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology, the Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China

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