PIK-III exerts anti-fibrotic effects in activated fibroblasts by regulating p38 activation

• Santiago Sanchez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Santiago Sanchez, Aaron K. McDowell-Sanchez

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Aaron K. McDowell-Sanchez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Santiago Sanchez, Aaron K. McDowell-Sanchez

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

  Affiliation Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Sharaz B. Al-Meerani,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Juan D. Cala-Garcia,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Alan R. Waich Cohen,

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

  Affiliation Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Scott A. Ochsner,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Neil J. McKenna,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Lindsay J. Celada,

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

  Affiliation Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Minghua Wu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Shervin Assassi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8059-9978

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• Ivan O. Rosas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Konstantin Tsoyi

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

  * E-mail: Konstantin.Tsoyi@bcm.edu.

  Affiliation Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5843-5427

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