Is thoracic but not abdominal phase contrast magnetic resonance-derived aortic pulse wave velocity elevated in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm?
AAA patients have a greater PWV in the thoracic but not abdominal aorta compared to control individuals. Greater abdominal aortic diameter in patients with AAA is likely to offset effects of intrinsic stiffening of the abdominal aorta on PWV.
These findings confirm that antigenic hydrophilic acylated proteins are expressed from genes in the same chromosomal region in species across the genus Leishmania. These proteins are surface-exposed on amastigotes (although L. (L.) major parasites also express HASPB on the metacyclic plasma membrane). The central repetitive domains of the HASPs are highly variant in their amino acid sequences, both within and between species, consistent with a role in immune recognition in the host.