GDF15 participates in epithelial cell senescence in radiation-induced lung injury through the ERK1/2-p16 signaling pathway

• Jing Liu ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work and share first authorship.

  Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, General Hospital of Northern Theater Command, Shenyang, China, Graduate School of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China

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• Dongyang Lv ,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization

  ¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work and share first authorship.

  Affiliation Graduate School of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China

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• Hengjiao Wang,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Graduate School of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China

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• Defu Yang,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Graduate School of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China

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• Ying Xu ,

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

  * E-mail: 514705167@qq.com (YX); yanyingdoctor@sina.com (YY)

  Affiliation Graduate School of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5523-4168

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• Ying Yan

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: 514705167@qq.com (YX); yanyingdoctor@sina.com (YY)

  Affiliation Graduate School of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China

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