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SUBMITTER: Albright RA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4686714 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Albright Ronald A RA Stabach Paul P Cao Wenxiang W Kavanagh Dillon D Mullen Isabelle I Braddock Alexander A AA Covo Mariel S MS Tehan Martin M Yang Guangxiao G Cheng Zhiliang Z Bouchard Keith K Yu Zhao-Xue ZX Thorn Stephanie S Wang Xiangning X Folta-Stogniew Ewa J EJ Negrete Alejandro A Sinusas Albert J AJ Shiloach Joseph J Zubal George G Madri Joseph A JA De La Cruz Enrique M EM Braddock Demetrios T DT
Nature communications 20151201
Diseases of ectopic calcification of the vascular wall range from lethal orphan diseases such as generalized arterial calcification of infancy (GACI), to common diseases such as hardening of the arteries associated with aging and calciphylaxis of chronic kidney disease (CKD). GACI is a lethal orphan disease in which infants calcify the internal elastic lamina of their medium and large arteries and expire of cardiac failure as neonates, while calciphylaxis of CKD is a ubiquitous vascular calcific ...[more]