Atherosclerosis
Volume 196, Issue 2 , Pages 542-550 , February 2008

Endothelial primary cilia in areas of disturbed flow are at the base of atherosclerosis

  • Kim Van der Heiden

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Leiden University Medical Center, P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands
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  • Beerend P. Hierck

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Leiden University Medical Center, P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands
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  • Rob Krams

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    • Department of Vascular Surgery, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Rini de Crom

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cell Biology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    • Department of Vascular Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Caroline Cheng

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Martin Baiker

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Leiden University Medical Center, P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands
    • Laboratory for Aero- and Hydrodynamics, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
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  • Mathieu J.B.M. Pourquie

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory for Aero- and Hydrodynamics, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
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  • Fanneke E. Alkemade

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Leiden University Medical Center, P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands
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  • Marco C. DeRuiter

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Leiden University Medical Center, P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands
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  • Adriana C. Gittenberger-de Groot

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Leiden University Medical Center, P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands
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  • Robert E. Poelmann

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Leiden University Medical Center, P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +31 71 5269306; fax: +31 71 5268289.

Received 13 October 2006 ,Revised 4 May 2007 ,Accepted 29 May 2007.

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PII: S0021-9150(07)00380-2

doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2007.05.030

Atherosclerosis
Volume 196, Issue 2 , Pages 542-550 , February 2008

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