Colonic levels of vasoactive intestinal peptide decrease during infection and exogenous VIP protects epithelial mitochondria against the negative effects of IFNγ and TNFα induced during Citrobacter rodentium infection

• Arpan K. Maiti ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Arpan K. Maiti, Sinan Sharba

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

  Current address: School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Dayananda Sagar University, Bangalore, India

  Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

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• Sinan Sharba ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Arpan K. Maiti, Sinan Sharba

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

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• Nazanin Navabi,

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

  Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

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• Sara K. Lindén

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sara.linden@biomedicine.gu.se

  Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0531-2137

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