Estrogen is required for maintaining the quality of cardiac stem cells

• Al Shaimaa Hasan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Al Shaimaa Hasan, Lan Luo

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Stem Cell Biology, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Medical Pharmacology, Qena Faculty of Medicine, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt

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• Lan Luo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Al Shaimaa Hasan, Lan Luo

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Stem Cell Biology, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, School of Medical Technology, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4839-104X

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• Satoko Baba,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Stem Cell Biology, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Tao-Sheng Li

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

  * E-mail: litaoshe@nagasaki-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Stem Cell Biology, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7653-8873

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