Adventitial remodeling protects against aortic rupture following late smooth muscle-specific disruption of TGFβ signaling
Kawamura Y, Murtada S, Gao F, Liu X, Tellides G, Humphrey J. Adventitial remodeling protects against aortic rupture following late smooth muscle-specific disruption of TGFβ signaling. Journal Of The Mechanical Behavior Of Biomedical Materials 2021, 116: 104264. PMID: 33508556, PMCID: PMC7959590, DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2020.104264.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAortic dissectionMouse modelAortic wallCompensatory changesThoracic aortic dissectionMuscle-specific disruptionSmooth muscle cellsLoss of TGFβMedial integrityAortic ruptureClinical presentationMuscle cellsQuantitative histologyMatrix turnoverTGFβ receptorsDissectionWall stressTGFβType IIndividual subjectsSpecific disruptionVivo valuesExaminationRupture
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