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Discrete contributions of elastic fiber components to arterial development and mechanical compliance.
Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology - 1 Dec 2009
Carta Luca, Wagenseil Jessica E, Knutsen Russell H, Mariko Boubacar, Faury Gilles, Davis Elaine C, Starcher Barry, Mecham Robert P, Ramirez Francesco
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OBJECTIVE: Even though elastin and fibrillin-1 are the major structural components of elastic fibers, mutations in elastin and fibrillin-1 lead to narrowing of large arteries in supravalvular aortic stenosis and dilation of the ascending aorta in Marfan syndrome, respectively. A genetic approach was therefore used here to distinguish the differential contributions of elastin and fibrillin-1 to arterial...
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