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

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Aortas from a healthy mouse (left) and an HGPSrev mouse with progeria. As occurs in HGPS patients, the cells of the HGPSrev aorta express progerin (white nuclei), and the aorta shows evidence of vascular smooth muscle cell loss (blue nuclei) and prominent vascular fibrosis (green signal).

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CNIC

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