About the Authors
- Mari Levula
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Contributed equally to this work with: Mari Levula, Niku Oksala
* E-mail: mari@levula.fi
Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry, Centre for Laboratory Medicine, Tampere University Hospital and Department of Clinical Chemistry, Medical School, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
- Niku Oksala
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Contributed equally to this work with: Mari Levula, Niku Oksala
Affiliations Department of Clinical Chemistry, Centre for Laboratory Medicine, Tampere University Hospital and Department of Clinical Chemistry, Medical School, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland, Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
- Nina Airla
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry, Centre for Laboratory Medicine, Tampere University Hospital and Department of Clinical Chemistry, Medical School, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
- Rainer Zeitlin
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
- Juha-Pekka Salenius
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
- Otso Järvinen
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Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heart Center, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
- Maarit Venermo
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
- Teemu Partio
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
- Jukka Saarinen
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
- Taija Somppi
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
- VeliPekka Suominen
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
- Jyrki Virkkunen
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
- Juha Hautalahti
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
- Reijo Laaksonen
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry, Centre for Laboratory Medicine, Tampere University Hospital and Department of Clinical Chemistry, Medical School, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
- Mika Kähönen
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Physiology, University of Tampere and Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
- Ari Mennander
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Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heart Center, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
- Leena Kytömäki
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Affiliation Turku Center for Biotechnology, Turku, Finland
- Juhani T. Soini
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Affiliation Turku Center for Biotechnology, Turku, Finland
- Jyrki Parkkinen
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Centre for Laboratory Medicine, Tampere, Finland
- Markku Pelto-Huikko
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Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology, Medical School, University of Tampere and Department of Pathology, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
- Terho Lehtimäki
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry, Centre for Laboratory Medicine, Tampere University Hospital and Department of Clinical Chemistry, Medical School, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: ML NO TL MP-H RZ OJ LK JTS JP NA. Performed the experiments: ML NO MP-H LK JP. Analyzed the data: J-PS MV TP JS TS VS JV JH RL MK AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TL MP-H JTS. Wrote the paper: ML NO MP-H TL AM NA JP RZ.