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"Declaration of Competing Interest: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper."

"The research reported in this publication was partly supported by the National Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health under Award Numbers HL125736 and HL147128, and by the Lead Project on ‘Mechanics, Modeling and Simulation of Aortic Dissection’ granted by Graz University of Technology, Austria. The authors also wish to acknowledge Live On Nebraska for their help and support, and thank tissue donors and their families for making this study possible. We would like to thank Dr. Steffen Dietzel from the Core Facility Bioimaging at the Biomedical Center, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, for assisting with SHG and TPF imaging, and Mario Holzer and Thomas Kammerhofer for their valuable support during imaging."