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Cold exposure induces ovarian dysfunction through endoplasmic reticulum stress-mediated apoptosis

XIAODAN SONG^1,#, YUQING WANG^1,#, XIUMEI CHENG^2,3,*, XIAOYUN ZHANG², DI WANG⁴, YANQING REN⁵, XINHUA LI⁴, XIAOQIAN DI¹, SISI XUE², TIANYUAN LV¹

1 College of Basic Medicine, Hebei University of Chinese Medicine, Shijiazhuang, 050200, China
2 College of Integrative Chinese and Western Medicine, Hebei University of Chinese Medicine, Shijiazhuang, 050200, China
3 Hebei Key Laboratory of Integrative Medicine on Liver-Kidney Patterns, Shijiazhuang, 050091, China
4 College of Acupuncture and Massage, Hebei University of Chinese Medicine, Shijiazhuang, 050200, China
5 College of Pharmacy, Hebei University of Chinese Medicine, Shijiazhuang, 050200, China

* Corresponding Author: XIUMEI CHENG. Email:
# Xiaodan Song and Yuqing Wang contributed equally to this article