Atherosclerosis
Volume 220, Issue 2 , Pages 355-361 , February 2012

Characteristics of TAV- and BAV-associated thoracic aortic aneurysms—Smooth muscle cell biology, expression profiling, and histological analyses

  • Stefan Blunder

      Affiliations

    • Cardiac Surgery Research Laboratory, Surgical Research Laboratories, Department of Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
    • Cardiac Surgery Research Laboratory, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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  • Barbara Messner

      Affiliations

    • Cardiac Surgery Research Laboratory, Surgical Research Laboratories, Department of Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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  • Thomas Aschacher

      Affiliations

    • Surgical Research Laboratories, Department of Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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  • Iris Zeller

      Affiliations

    • Cardiac Surgery Research Laboratory, Surgical Research Laboratories, Department of Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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  • Adrian Türkcan

      Affiliations

    • Cardiac Surgery Research Laboratory, Surgical Research Laboratories, Department of Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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  • Dominik Wiedemann

      Affiliations

    • Cardiac Surgery Research Laboratory, Surgical Research Laboratories, Department of Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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  • Martin Andreas

      Affiliations

    • Cardiac Surgery Research Laboratory, Surgical Research Laboratories, Department of Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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  • Gert Blüschke

      Affiliations

    • Cardiac Surgery Research Laboratory, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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  • Günther Laufer

      Affiliations

    • Cardiac Surgery Research Laboratory, Surgical Research Laboratories, Department of Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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  • Thomas Schachner

      Affiliations

    • Cardiac Surgery Research Laboratory, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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  • David Bernhard

      Affiliations

    • Cardiac Surgery Research Laboratory, Surgical Research Laboratories, Department of Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Cardiac Surgery, Research Laboratories, Department of Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria. Tel.: +43 0 1 40400 39243; fax: +43 0 1 40400 6782.

Received 20 June 2011 ,Revised 18 October 2011 ,Accepted 22 November 2011.

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PII: S0021-9150(11)01106-3

doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2011.11.035

Atherosclerosis
Volume 220, Issue 2 , Pages 355-361 , February 2012

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