Lycopene inhibits ER stress and apoptosis while modulating PI3K/AKT and enhancing antioxidant and anti-apoptotic proteins

• Lijun Zheng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lijun Zheng, Hui Zhang

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Nursing Department, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Yiwu, China

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• Hui Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lijun Zheng, Hui Zhang

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau (or Macau SAR), China

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• Yuchao Sun

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: 8018136@zju.edu.cn

  Affiliation The Core Facilities, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of School of Medicine, and International School of Medicine, International Institutes of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Yiwu, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6320-0382

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