title: Transforming Growth Factor-β in Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms: Good, Bad, or Irrelevant?
authors.affiliation: Saha Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY alan.daugherty@uky.edu.|Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Daugherty
authors.affiliation: Saha Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.|Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
authors.forename: Zheying
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Saha Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
authors.forename: Hisashi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sawada
authors.affiliation: Saha Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
authors.forename: Debra L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Rateri
authors.affiliation: Saha Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.|Department of Family Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.|Department of Surgery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
authors.forename: Mary B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Sheppard
mesh_terms: D001013:Aorta, Thoracic; D017545:Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D006801:Humans; D016212:Transforming Growth Factor beta / Q000235:genetics*; D015291:Transforming Growth Factors
chemical_list: D016212:Transforming Growth Factor beta; D015291:Transforming Growth Factors
keywords: Editorials; aneurysm; cytokine; transforming growth factor‐β pathway aneurysm; vascular biology