Extracellular SPARC increases cardiomyocyte contraction during health and disease

Sophie Deckx; Daniel M. Johnson; Marieke Rienks; Paolo Carai; Elza Van Deel; Jolanda Van der Velden; Karin R. Sipido; Stephane Heymans; Anna-Pia Papageorgiou

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0209534

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Extracellular SPARC increases cardiomyocyte contraction during health and disease

Sophie Deckx ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Sophie Deckx, Stephane Heymans, Anna-Pia Papageorgiou

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Daniel M. Johnson,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7376-7101

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Marieke Rienks,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, King's British Heart Foundation Centre, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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Paolo Carai,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Elza Van Deel,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Physiology, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Jolanda Van der Velden,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Physiology, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Karin R. Sipido,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Stephane Heymans ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Sophie Deckx, Stephane Heymans, Anna-Pia Papageorgiou

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Anna-Pia Papageorgiou

Contributed equally to this work with: Sophie Deckx, Stephane Heymans, Anna-Pia Papageorgiou

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: anna.papageorgiou@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Extracellular SPARC increases cardiomyocyte contraction during health and disease

Sophie Deckx,
Daniel M. Johnson,
Marieke Rienks,
Paolo Carai,
Elza Van Deel,
Jolanda Van der Velden,
Karin R. Sipido,
Stephane Heymans,
Anna-Pia Papageorgiou

Published: April 1, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209534

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