Exposure to multiple ion beams, broadly representative of galactic cosmic rays, causes perivascular cardiac fibrosis in mature male rats

• Marek Lenarczyk,

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

  Affiliation Radiation Biosciences Laboratory, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States of America

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• Amy Kronenberg,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States of America

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• Marylou Mäder,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States of America

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• Richard Komorowski,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States of America

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• John W. Hopewell,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• John E. Baker

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

  * E-mail: jbaker@mcw.edu

  Affiliations Radiation Biosciences Laboratory, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7899-3266

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