An in vitro method to keep human aortic tissue sections functionally and structurally intact

Abstract The pathophysiology of aortic aneurysms (AA) is far from being understood. One reason for this lack of understanding is basic research being constrained to fixated cells or isolated cell cultures, by which cell-to-cell and cell-to-matrix communications are missed. We present a new, in vitro...

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Main Authors: Jorn P. Meekel, Menno E. Groeneveld, Natalija Bogunovic, Niels Keekstra, René J. P. Musters, Behrouz Zandieh-Doulabi, Gerard Pals, Dimitra Micha, Hans W. M. Niessen, Arno M. Wiersema, Jur K. Kievit, Arjan W. J. Hoksbergen, Willem Wisselink, Jan D. Blankensteijn, Kak K. Yeung
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-26549-4