Disruption of Osteoprotegerin has complex effects on medial destruction and adventitial fibrosis during mouse abdominal aortic aneurysm formation

• Batmunkh Bumdelger ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Batmunkh Bumdelger, Mikage Otani

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Physiology and Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

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• Mikage Otani ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Batmunkh Bumdelger, Mikage Otani

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Physiology and Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

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• Kohei Karasaki,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Physiology and Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

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• Chiemi Sakai,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Physiology and Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

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• Mari Ishida,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Physiology and Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

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• Hiroki Kokubo ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hkokubo@hiroshima-u.ac.jp (HK); yoshizum-tky@umin.ac.jp (MY)

  Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Physiology and Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7259-9521

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• Masao Yoshizumi

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hkokubo@hiroshima-u.ac.jp (HK); yoshizum-tky@umin.ac.jp (MY)

  Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Physiology and Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

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