Patients undergoing aortocoronary artery bypass surgery were recruited from the Department of Cardiac Surgery at Leeds Teaching Hospitals. Primary saphenous vein (SV) endothelial cells (SVECs) were isolated from segments of human SV, obtained as previously described (18 (link)). Ethical approval was granted by the local Research Ethics Committee (Ref. No. CA01/040). SVECs were grown in EBM-2 growth medium supplemented with an EGM-2 bullet kit (Lonza) and used up to passage 3.
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