Cardiac Fibroblasts Contribute to Myocardial Dysfunction in Mice with Sepsis: The Role of NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation

• Wenbo Zhang,

  Affiliations Departments of Medicine and Surgery, the Affiliated People's Hospital of Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, China, Critical Illness Research, Lawson Health Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada

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• Xuemei Xu,

  Affiliations Critical Illness Research, Lawson Health Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada, Critical Care Western, Department of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

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• Raymond Kao,

  Affiliations Critical Illness Research, Lawson Health Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada, Critical Care Western, Department of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

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• Tina Mele,

  Affiliations Critical Illness Research, Lawson Health Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada, Critical Care Western, Department of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

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• Peter Kvietys,

  Affiliation Department of Physiology & Biochemistry, College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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• Claudio M. Martin,

  Affiliations Critical Illness Research, Lawson Health Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada, Critical Care Western, Department of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

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• Tao Rui

  * E-mail: trui@uwo.ca

  Affiliations Departments of Medicine and Surgery, the Affiliated People's Hospital of Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, China, Critical Illness Research, Lawson Health Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada, Critical Care Western, Department of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Pathology, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

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