Berberine inhibits free fatty acid and LPS-induced inflammation via modulating ER stress response in macrophages and hepatocytes

• Yanyan Wang,

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

  Affiliations School of Pharmaceutical Science, Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Hefei, China, Department of Microbiology and Immunology and McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Xiqiao Zhou,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology and McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

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• Derrick Zhao,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology and McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Xuan Wang,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology and McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Emily C. Gurley,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology and McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Runping Liu,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology and McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Xiaojiaoyang Li,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology and McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Phillip B. Hylemon,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology and McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Weidong Chen ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: anzhongdong@126.com (WC); huiping.zhou@vcuhealth.org (HZ)

  Affiliation School of Pharmaceutical Science, Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Hefei, China

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• Huiping Zhou

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

  * E-mail: anzhongdong@126.com (WC); huiping.zhou@vcuhealth.org (HZ)

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology and McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0050-372X

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