Statins Improve the Resolution of Established Murine Venous Thrombosis: Reductions in Thrombus Burden and Vein Wall Scarring

• Chase W. Kessinger ,

  ¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Center, Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Jin Won Kim ,

  ¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Cardiovascular Research Center, Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Multimodal Imaging and Theranostic Lab, Cardiovascular Center, Korea University Guro Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Peter K. Henke,

  Affiliation Section of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

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• Brian Thompson,

  Affiliation Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Jason R. McCarthy,

  Affiliations Center for Molecular Imaging Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Tetsuya Hara,

  Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Center, Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Martin Sillesen,

  Affiliation Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Ronan J. P. Margey,

  Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Center, Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Peter Libby,

  Affiliation Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Ralph Weissleder,

  Affiliations Center for Molecular Imaging Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Charles P. Lin,

  Affiliations Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Farouc A. Jaffer

  * E-mail: fjaffer@mgh.harvard.edu

  Affiliations Cardiovascular Research Center, Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Molecular Imaging Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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