Immunogenicity of Intensively Decellularized Equine Carotid Arteries Is Conferred by the Extracellular Matrix Protein Collagen Type VI

• Ulrike Boeer ,

  * E-mail: boeer.ulrike@mh-hannover.de

  Affiliations GMP- model laboratory for tissue engineering, Hannover, Germany, Division for Cardiac-, Thoracic-, Transplantation- and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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• Falk F. R. Buettner,

  Affiliation Department of Cellular Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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• Melanie Klingenberg,

  Affiliations GMP- model laboratory for tissue engineering, Hannover, Germany, Division for Cardiac-, Thoracic-, Transplantation- and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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• Georgios C. Antonopoulos,

  Affiliation Biomedical Optics Department, Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., Hannover, Germany

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• Heiko Meyer,

  Affiliations Division for Cardiac-, Thoracic-, Transplantation- and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Biomedical Optics Department, Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., Hannover, Germany

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• Axel Haverich,

  Affiliations GMP- model laboratory for tissue engineering, Hannover, Germany, Division for Cardiac-, Thoracic-, Transplantation- and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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• Mathias Wilhelmi

  Affiliations GMP- model laboratory for tissue engineering, Hannover, Germany, Division for Cardiac-, Thoracic-, Transplantation- and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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