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Ann Thorac Surg 2003;76:1777
© 2003 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Correspondence

Extracellular matrix in tissue-engineered pulmonary arteries

Florian Opitz, MSa, Ulrich A Stock, MDa, Thorsten Wahlers, MDa, Walter Richter, PhDb

a Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Bachstrasse 18, 07743 Jena, Germany
b Department of Ultrastructure Research, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Bachstrasse 18, 07743 Jena, Germany

e-mail: florian.opitz@med.uni-jena.de

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To the Editor:

We read with great interest the article by Hoerstrup and colleagues [1]. In Figure 4C, the authors claim to show "cell elements typical of secretionally active myofibroblasts such as collagen fibrils and elastin." In this context, we question whether mature extracellular matrix proteins . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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