Inflammatory cell infiltrates, hypoxia, vascularization, pentraxin 3 and osteoprotegerin in abdominal aortic aneurysms – A quantitative histological study

• Tereza Blassova ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: tereza.blassova@lfp.cuni.cz

  Affiliation Department of Histology and Embryology and Biomedical Centre, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7260-563X

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• Zbynek Tonar,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Histology and Embryology and Biomedical Centre, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7200-9894

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• Petr Tomasek,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Histology and Embryology and Biomedical Centre, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic

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• Petr Hosek,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Histology and Embryology and Biomedical Centre, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic

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• Ivana Hollan,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Lillehammer, Norway, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Vladislav Treska,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Vascular Surgery, University Hospital in Pilsen, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic

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• Jiri Molacek

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Vascular Surgery, University Hospital in Pilsen, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic

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