Human esophageal myofibroblasts increase squamous epithelial thickness via paracrine mechanisms in an in vitro model of gastroesophageal reflux disease

• Liping Hu,

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

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Chunying Zhang,

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

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Kevin Yang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Meng Li,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  Affiliation USC Libraries Bioinformatics Services, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Anisa Shaker

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ashaker@usc.edu

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3165-996X

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