Fiedler, Jan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8855-2883
Park, Da-Hee
Hobuß, Lisa
Anaraki, Parnian Kalbasi
Pfanne, Angelika
Just, Annette
Mitzka, Saskia
Dumler, Inna
Weidemann, Frank
Hilfiker, Andres
Thum, Thomas
Funding for this research was provided by:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (KFO311)
EraNet (Expert)
Article History
Received: 15 November 2018
Accepted: 26 February 2019
First Online: 6 March 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The authors disclose support from DFG (KFO311 to TT) and EraNet Expert (to TT). TT and JF have filed patents in the field of cardiovascular miRNA diagnostics and therapeutics. TT is founder of Cardior Pharmaceuticals GmbH.
: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000. Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study. Aortic valve samples were obtained from patients undergoing aortic valve replacement in the University Hospital Würzburg approved by ethics committee (study number 111/03 from 09/2003).