Circulating exosome-circRNAs mediated downregulation of FGF9 through ceRNA mechanism aggravates renal fibrosis in diabetic nephropathy

• Donglin Yang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Donglin Yang, Rongjiang Yin, Xiaomin Zhang

  Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – original draft

  ¶These authors contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation College of Basic Medical, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, Shandong, P.R. China

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• Rongjiang Yin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Donglin Yang, Rongjiang Yin, Xiaomin Zhang

  Roles Data curation, Software

  ¶These authors contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Yantai Affiliated Hospital of Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, Shandong, P.R. China

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• Xiaomin Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Donglin Yang, Rongjiang Yin, Xiaomin Zhang

  Roles Data curation, Software

  ¶These authors contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Binzhou Medical University Hospital, Binzhou, Shandong, P.R. China

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• Xiaohui Wang,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Yantai Affiliated Hospital of Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, Shandong, P.R. China

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• Xiaobin Pei,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Yantai Affiliated Hospital of Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, Shandong, P.R. China

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• Zijie Guo,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation College of Basic Medical, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, Shandong, P.R. China

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• Pengyue Qiao,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation College of Basic Medical, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, Shandong, P.R. China

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• Kehan Zhu,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation College of Basic Medical, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, Shandong, P.R. China

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• Lin Wang ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: 252983491@qq.com (PD); wanglin54202003@163.com (LW)

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Central Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, P.R. China

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• Pengchao Du

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: 252983491@qq.com (PD); wanglin54202003@163.com (LW)

  Affiliation College of Basic Medical, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, Shandong, P.R. China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2136-9515

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