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Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (F.S.P.)

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Images of aortic sections from a healthy mouse and from a Marfan syndrome mouse model showing that elastic fibers disarray (black lines) and vascular wall thickening in the Marfan mouse model is reverted upon gene silencing of the Prkg1 protein.

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