Melatonin serves as a novel treatment in bladder fibrosis through TGF-β1/Smad and EMT

• Yang Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yang Zhang, Sun Gong

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Urology, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9084-7672

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• Sun Gong ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yang Zhang, Sun Gong

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Urology, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China

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• Weixin He ,

  Roles Conceptualization

  ¶‡ WH, JY, DD, JZ and HW also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Urology, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China

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• Jie Yuan ,

  Roles Data curation

  ¶‡ WH, JY, DD, JZ and HW also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Urology, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China

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• Di Dong ,

  Roles Formal analysis

  ¶‡ WH, JY, DD, JZ and HW also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Urology, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China

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• Jialong Zhang ,

  Roles Methodology

  ¶‡ WH, JY, DD, JZ and HW also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Urology, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China

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• Haomin Wang ,

  Roles Software

  ¶‡ WH, JY, DD, JZ and HW also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Urology, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China

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• Binghai Chen

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

  * E-mail: chenbhny@163.com

  Affiliations Department of Urology, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China, Institute of Translational Medicine, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0913-860X

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