Crystalline silica-exposed human lung epithelial cells presented enhanced anchorage-independent growth with upregulated expression of BRD4 and EZH2 in autocrine and paracrine manners

• Motoo Katabami,

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

  Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3446-0876

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• Ichiro Kinoshita ,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kinoshii@med.hokudai.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6694-8414

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• Shin Ariga,

  Roles Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Yasushi Shimizu,

  Roles Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Hirotoshi Dosaka-Akita

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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