Host-Derived Smooth Muscle Cells Accumulate in Cardiac Allografts: Role of Inflammation and Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein 1

• Piotr Religa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Piotr Religa, Monika K. Grudzinska

  * E-mail: piotr.religa@ki.se

  Affiliations Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Internal Medicine and Hypertension, Warsaw University of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland

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• Monika K. Grudzinska ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Piotr Religa, Monika K. Grudzinska

  Affiliation Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Krzysztof Bojakowski,

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine and Hypertension, Warsaw University of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland, Department of General, Vascular and Oncologic Surgery, Warsaw University of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland

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• Joanna Soin,

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine and Hypertension, Warsaw University of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland, Department of General Biochemistry and Nutrition, Warsaw University of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland

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• Jerzy Nozynski,

  Affiliation Silesian Center for Heart Diseases, Zabrze, Poland

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• Michal Zakliczynski,

  Affiliation Silesian Center for Heart Diseases, Zabrze, Poland

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• Zbigniew Gaciong,

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Hypertension, Warsaw University of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland

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• Marian Zembala,

  Affiliation Silesian Center for Heart Diseases, Zabrze, Poland

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• Cecilia Söderberg-Nauclér

  Affiliation Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

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