Melatonin alleviates lung injury in H1N1-infected mice by mast cell inactivation and cytokine storm suppression

• Caiyun Huo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Caiyun Huo, Yuling Tang, Xinsen Li

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Animal Epidemiology of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, Beijing Key Laboratory for Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases in Livestock and Poultry, Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Yuling Tang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Caiyun Huo, Yuling Tang, Xinsen Li

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

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Epidemiology of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

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• Xinsen Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Caiyun Huo, Yuling Tang, Xinsen Li

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Epidemiology of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

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• Deping Han,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Epidemiology of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

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• Qingyue Gu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Epidemiology of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

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• Ruijing Su,

  Roles Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Epidemiology of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

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• Yunjie Liu,

  Roles Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Beijing Key Laboratory for Animal Genetic Improvement, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

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• Russel J. Reiter,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cell Systems and Anatomy, UT Health San Antonio, Long School of Medicine, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

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• Guoshi Liu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gshliu@cau.edu.cn (GL); 07033@cau.edu.cn (YH)

  Affiliation National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Beijing Key Laboratory for Animal Genetic Improvement, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

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• Yanxin Hu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gshliu@cau.edu.cn (GL); 07033@cau.edu.cn (YH)

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Epidemiology of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7009-8451

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• Hanchun Yang

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Epidemiology of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

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