Extracellular vesicles from focal segmental glomerulosclerosis pediatric patients induce STAT3 activation and mesangial cell proliferation

• Naile T. Pekkucuksen,

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

  Affiliation Division Pediatric Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Lauren P. Liu,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physiology and Aging, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Rasha Aly,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division Pediatric Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Lawrence R. Shoemaker,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division Pediatric Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Abdel A. Alli

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

  * E-mail: aalli@ufl.edu

  Affiliations Division Pediatric Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Department of Physiology and Aging, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Department of Medicine Division of Nephrology, Hypertension, and Renal Transplantation, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4381-1172

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