Intrinsic Deregulation of Vascular Smooth Muscle and Myofibroblast Differentiation in Mesenchymal Stromal Cells from Patients with Systemic Sclerosis

• Björn Hegner ,

  * E-mail: bjoern.hegner@charite.de

  Affiliations Clinic for Nephrology and Intensive Care Medicine, Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies (BSRT), Berlin, Germany, Center for Cardiovascular Research (CCR), Charitè University Hospital, Berlin, Germany

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• Theres Schaub,

  Affiliations Clinic for Nephrology and Intensive Care Medicine, Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies (BSRT), Berlin, Germany, Center for Cardiovascular Research (CCR), Charitè University Hospital, Berlin, Germany, Institute for Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Rusan Catar,

  Affiliations Clinic for Nephrology and Intensive Care Medicine, Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany, Center for Cardiovascular Research (CCR), Charitè University Hospital, Berlin, Germany

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• Angelika Kusch,

  Affiliations Clinic for Nephrology and Intensive Care Medicine, Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany, Center for Cardiovascular Research (CCR), Charitè University Hospital, Berlin, Germany

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• Philine Wagner,

  Affiliation Clinic for Nephrology and Intensive Care Medicine, Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany

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• Kirill Essin,

  Affiliation Experimental and Clinical Research Center, Charité Medical Faculty and the Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

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• Claudia Lange,

  Affiliation Clinic for Stem Cell Transplantation, Department of Cell and Gene Therapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Gabriela Riemekasten,

  Affiliation Clinic for Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany

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• Duska Dragun

  Affiliations Clinic for Nephrology and Intensive Care Medicine, Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies (BSRT), Berlin, Germany, Center for Cardiovascular Research (CCR), Charitè University Hospital, Berlin, Germany

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