Characterization of Shear-Sensitive Genes in the Normal Rat Aorta Identifies Hand2 as a Major Flow-Responsive Transcription Factor

• Hanna M. Björck ,

  * E-mail: hanna.bjorck@ki.se

  Affiliations Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV), Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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• Johan Renner,

  Affiliations Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV), Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Division of Applied Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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• Shohreh Maleki,

  Affiliation Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Center for Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Solna, Sweden

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• Siv F. E. Nilsson,

  Affiliation Division of Drug Research, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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• Johan Kihlberg,

  Affiliations Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV), Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Division of Radiology, University Hospital in Linköping, Linköping, Sweden

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• Lasse Folkersen,

  Affiliation Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Center for Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Solna, Sweden

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• Matts Karlsson,

  Affiliations Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV), Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Division of Applied Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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• Tino Ebbers,

  Affiliations Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV), Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Division of Applied Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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• Per Eriksson,

  Affiliation Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Center for Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Solna, Sweden

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• Toste Länne

  Affiliations Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV), Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, University Hospital in Linköping, Linköping, Sweden

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