Early Cellular Changes in the Ascending Aorta and Myocardium in a Swine Model of Metabolic Syndrome

Rabya Saraf; Thomas Huang; Feroze Mahmood; Khurram Owais; Amit Bardia; Kamal R. Khabbaz; David Liu; Venkatachalam Senthilnathan; Antonio D. Lassaletta; Frank Sellke; Robina Matyal

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0146481

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Early Cellular Changes in the Ascending Aorta and Myocardium in a Swine Model of Metabolic Syndrome

Rabya Saraf ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Rabya Saraf, Thomas Huang

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Thomas Huang ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Rabya Saraf, Thomas Huang

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Feroze Mahmood,

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Khurram Owais,

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Amit Bardia,

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Kamal R. Khabbaz,

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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David Liu,

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Venkatachalam Senthilnathan,

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Antonio D. Lassaletta,

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Rhode Island Hospital, Brown Alpert School of Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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Frank Sellke,

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Rhode Island Hospital, Brown Alpert School of Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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Robina Matyal

* E-mail: rmatyal1@bidmc.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Early Cellular Changes in the Ascending Aorta and Myocardium in a Swine Model of Metabolic Syndrome

Rabya Saraf,
Thomas Huang,
Feroze Mahmood,
Khurram Owais,
Amit Bardia,
Kamal R. Khabbaz,
David Liu,
Venkatachalam Senthilnathan,
Antonio D. Lassaletta,
Frank Sellke

Published: January 14, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0146481

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