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Mechano-potential etiologies of aortic valve disease.
Journal of biomechanics - 5 Jan 2010
David Merryman W
Abstract excerpt
Aortic valve leaflets experience varying applied loads during the cardiac cycle. These varying loads act on both cell types of the leaflets, endothelial and interstitial cells, and cause molecular signaling events that are required for repairing the leaflet tissue, which is continually damaged from the applied loads. However, with increasing age, this reparative mechanism appears to go awry as valve interstitial...
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