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Isolation and Characterization of Primary Rat Valve Interstitial Cells: A New Model to Study Aortic Valve Calcification
Published on: November 20, 2017
1University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Biomedical Engineering, 811 Shelby Biomedical Research Building, 1825 University Blvd, Birmingham, AL 35294-2182, USA. merryman@uab.edu
Degenerative aortic valve disease in aging populations stems from interstitial cell malfunction, not just endothelial cells. Understanding interstitial cell mechanobiology is key to future treatments beyond valve replacement surgery.
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