Tick saliva protein fraction inhibits breast cancer by decreasing cell viability and promoting apoptosis in vitro

• Ana Carolina Prado Sousa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ana Carolina Prado Sousa, Mario Durán-Prado

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Ixodologia Laboratory, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Federal University of Uberlandia, Campus Umuarama, Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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• Mario Durán-Prado ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ana Carolina Prado Sousa, Mario Durán-Prado

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Oxidative Stress and Neurodegeneration Group, Medical Sciences Department, Medical School, UCLM, Regional Centre for Biomedical Research, Research Institute of Castilla-La Mancha (IDISCAM), University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain, Department of Medical Sciences, School of Medicine at Ciudad Real, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain

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• Margarita Villar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations SaBio. Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC-CSIC-UCLM-JCCM, Ciudad Real, Spain, Biochemistry Section, Department of Inorganic, Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences and Chemical Technologies, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain

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• Almudena González-García,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation SaBio. Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC-CSIC-UCLM-JCCM, Ciudad Real, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7687-2871

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• Matias Pablo Juan Szabó,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Ixodologia Laboratory, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Federal University of Uberlandia, Campus Umuarama, Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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• José de la Fuente

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jose_delafuente@yahoo.com, josedejesus.fuente@uclm.es

  Affiliations SaBio. Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC-CSIC-UCLM-JCCM, Ciudad Real, Spain, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Center for Veterinary Health Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7383-9649

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