Smooth muscle cell phenotypic switching occurs independent of aortic dilation in bicuspid aortic valve-associated ascending aortas

• Brittany Balint ,

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

  * E-mail: Brittany.Balint@duke.edu

  Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Saarland University Medical Center, Homburg, Saar, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7520-9509

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• Inés García Lascurain Bernstorff,

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

  Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Saarland University Medical Center, Homburg, Saar, Germany

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• Tanja Schwab,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Saarland University Medical Center, Homburg, Saar, Germany

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• Hans-Joachim Schäfers

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

  Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Saarland University Medical Center, Homburg, Saar, Germany

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