Berberine potentiates liver inflammation and fibrosis in the PI*Z hAAT transgenic murine model

• Yuanqing Lu,

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

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8196-8918

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• Naweed S. Mohammad,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Jungnam Lee,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Alek M. Aranyos,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Karina A. Serban,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Mark L. Brantly

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mbrantly@ufl.edu

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0189-1565

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