Atherosclerosis
Volume 210, Issue 1 , Pages 63-70 , May 2010

Regulation of arginase pathway in response to wall shear stress

  • Tyler N. Thacher

      Affiliations

    • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Veronica Gambillara

      Affiliations

    • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Fabienne Riche

      Affiliations

    • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Paolo Silacci

      Affiliations

    • Station de recherche Agroscope Liebefeld, Posieux, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Nikos Stergiopulos

      Affiliations

    • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Rafaela F. da Silva

      Affiliations

    • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
    • Department of Neurosurgery, Geneva University Medical Center, Switzerland
    • Department of Fundamental Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Laboratory of Hemodynamics and Cardiovascular Technology, Building AI1232, Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. Tel.: +41 21 693 9654; fax: +41 21 693 8083.

Received 22 March 2009 ,Revised 22 October 2009 ,Accepted 24 October 2009.

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PII: S0021-9150(09)00905-8

doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2009.10.031

Atherosclerosis
Volume 210, Issue 1 , Pages 63-70 , May 2010

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