Thromb Haemost 2015; 114(02): 434-437
DOI: 10.1160/TH14-12-1060
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GDF-15 prevents ventilator-induced lung injury by inhibiting the formation of platelet-neutro-phil aggregates

Jan M. Herter*
1   Center for Excellence in Vascular Biology, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
,
Florian Kraft*
2   Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, University Hospital Münster, Germany
3   Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster, Germany
,
Hugo Van Aken
2   Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, University Hospital Münster, Germany
,
Melanie Meersch
2   Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, University Hospital Münster, Germany
,
Alexander Zarbock
2   Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, University Hospital Münster, Germany
3   Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster, Germany
,
Jan Rossaint
2   Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, University Hospital Münster, Germany
3   Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster, Germany
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Financial support:This study was supported by grants from the Interdisciplinary Clinical Research Center (IZKF Münster, Germany, SEED 01/12 to J. R.) and the German Research Foundation (RO 4537/2–1 to J.R, ZA428/6–1, ZA428/8–1, SFB1009/A5 to A. Z. and HE-6810/1–1 to J. H.).
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Publication History

Received: 19 December 2014

Accepted after minor revision: 28 February 2015

Publication Date:
01 December 2017 (online)

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* These authors contributed equally and share first authorship.