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Calcification of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells and Imaging of Aortic Calcification and Inflammation
Published on: May 31, 2016
Editorial: Biomechanics and mechanotransduction in cardiovascular calcification
Joshua D Hutcheson1,2,3, Luis Cardoso4
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States.
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
|June 24, 2026
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