Myocardial Expression Analysis of Osteopontin and Its Splice Variants in Patients Affected by End-Stage Idiopathic or Ischemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy

• Manuela Cabiati,

  Affiliation CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology, Pisa, Italy

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• Benedetta Svezia,

  Affiliations CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology, Pisa, Italy, Laboratory of Translational Critical Care Medicine, Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy

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• Marco Matteucci,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Translational Critical Care Medicine, Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy

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• Luca Botta,

  Affiliation Department of cardiac Surgery, Niguarda Ca’ Granda Hospital, Milan, Italy

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• Angela Pucci,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, University Hospital Pisa, Pisa, Italy

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• Mauro Rinaldi,

  Affiliation Cardiac Surgery Department, Cardiothoracic Department, A.O.U. Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Presidio Molinette, and University of Torino, Turin, Italy

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• Chiara Caselli,

  Affiliation CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology, Pisa, Italy

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• Vincenzo Lionetti ,

  * E-mail: delry@ifc.cnr.it (SDR); v.lionetti@sssup.it (VL)

  Affiliation Laboratory of Translational Critical Care Medicine, Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy

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• Silvia Del Ry

  * E-mail: delry@ifc.cnr.it (SDR); v.lionetti@sssup.it (VL)

  Affiliation CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology, Pisa, Italy

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