Isolating pulmonary microvascular endothelial cells ex vivo: Implications for pulmonary arterial hypertension, and a caution on the use of commercial biomaterials

• Bradley M. Wertheim,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1414-4692

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• Yi-Dong Lin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Ying-Yi Zhang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Andriy O. Samokhin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

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• George A. Alba,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• Elena Arons,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Paul B. Yu,

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

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

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• Bradley A. Maron

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

  * E-mail: bmaron@bwh.harvard.edu

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

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