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Raphaël Coscas1, Marie Bensussan2, Marie-Paule Jacob3

  • 1UMR 1148, Inserm-Paris7, Denis Diderot University, Xavier Bichat Hospital, 75018 Paris, France; UMR 1173, Inserm-Paris11, Faculty of Health Sciences Simone Veil, Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University, Paris-Saclay University, 78180 Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France; Department of Vascular Surgery, Ambroise Paré University Hospital, AP-HP, 92104 Boulogne-Billancourt, France; UMR 1018, Inserm-Paris11, CESP, Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University, Paris-Saclay University, Paul Brousse Hospital, 94807 Villejuif, France.

Atherosclerosis
|March 16, 2017
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Keywords:
AneurysmCalcificationCalcium scoreFree DNAHuman atherosclerosisSmooth muscle cell

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