About the Authors

Charles-Antoine Dutertre

cadutertre@yahoo.fr (CAD); antonino.nicoletti@inserm.fr (AN)

Current address: Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Program in Emerging Infectious Disease, Singapore, Singapore

Affiliation INSERM (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale) U698, Hemostasis, Bio-engineering and Cardiovascular Remodeling, Hôpital Bichat, Paris, France

Marc Clement

Affiliations INSERM (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale) U698, Hemostasis, Bio-engineering and Cardiovascular Remodeling, Hôpital Bichat, Paris, France, Université Denis Diderot, Paris, France

Marion Morvan

Affiliation INSERM (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale) U698, Hemostasis, Bio-engineering and Cardiovascular Remodeling, Hôpital Bichat, Paris, France

Knut Schäkel

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany

Yves Castier

Affiliations Université Denis Diderot, Paris, France, AP-HP, Service de chirurgie Vasculaire et Thoracique, Hôpital Bichat, Paris, France

Jean-Marc Alsac

Affiliation AP-HP, Service de chirurgie cardiaque et vasculaire, Hopital Européen Georges Pompidou, Faculté de Médecine René Descartes, Université Paris 5, Paris, France

Jean-Baptiste Michel

Affiliations INSERM (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale) U698, Hemostasis, Bio-engineering and Cardiovascular Remodeling, Hôpital Bichat, Paris, France, Université Denis Diderot, Paris, France, DHU Fire, Paris, France

Antonino Nicoletti

cadutertre@yahoo.fr (CAD); antonino.nicoletti@inserm.fr (AN)

Affiliations INSERM (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale) U698, Hemostasis, Bio-engineering and Cardiovascular Remodeling, Hôpital Bichat, Paris, France, Université Denis Diderot, Paris, France, DHU Fire, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CAD AN. Performed the experiments: CAD MC MM JBM. Analyzed the data: CAD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KS YC JMA. Wrote the paper: CAD AN. Provided the anti-slan antibody used in histology and methods to use it: KS. Provided aortic tissue samples: YC JMA.