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Active tissue stiffness modulation controls valve interstitial cell phenotype and osteogenic potential in 3D culture.
Acta biomaterialia - 1 May 2016
Duan Bin, Yin Ziying, Hockaday Kang Laura, Magin Richard L, Butcher Jonathan T
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: Calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD) progression is a highly dynamic process whereby normally fibroblastic valve interstitial cells (VIC) undergo osteogenic differentiation, maladaptive extracellular matrix (ECM) composition, structural remodeling, and tissue matrix stiffening. However, how VIC with different phenotypes dynamically affect matrix properties and how the altered matrix further affects...
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