Bisphenol AF promotes estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer cell proliferation through amphiregulin-mediated crosstalk with receptor tyrosine kinase signaling

• Qingxia Zhao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Qingxia Zhao, Erin W. Howard

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Julius L. Chambers Biomedical/Biotechnology Research Institute, Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, North Carolina Central University, North Carolina Research Campus, Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Erin W. Howard ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Qingxia Zhao, Erin W. Howard

  Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Julius L. Chambers Biomedical/Biotechnology Research Institute, Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, North Carolina Central University, North Carolina Research Campus, Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Amanda B. Parris,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Julius L. Chambers Biomedical/Biotechnology Research Institute, Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, North Carolina Central University, North Carolina Research Campus, Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Zhikun Ma,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Julius L. Chambers Biomedical/Biotechnology Research Institute, Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, North Carolina Central University, North Carolina Research Campus, Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Ying Xing,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  Affiliation Basic Medical College of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, P.R. China

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• Xiaohe Yang

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

  * E-mail: xyang@nccu.edu

  Affiliation Julius L. Chambers Biomedical/Biotechnology Research Institute, Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, North Carolina Central University, North Carolina Research Campus, Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5239-2451

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