Animal Models of Pulmonary Vascular Disease and Therapy

Large animal preclinical investigation into the optimal extracorporeal life support configuration for pulmonary hypertension and right ventricular failure

Rei Utika, John W. Stokes, W. Kelly Wu, Yatrik J. Patel, Jennifer R. Talackine, Nancy Cardwell, Clayne Benson, Ryan J. Lefevre, Susan Eagle, Caitlin Demarest, Elizabeth Simonds, Yuliya Tipograf, Michael Cortelli, David J. Skoog, Keith Cook, Erika B. Rosenzweig, Matthew BachettaVanderbilt University Medical Center. Advanced Respiratory Technologies LLC. Carnegie Mellon University. Columbia University Medical Center.United […]

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Periostin-related progression of different types of experimental pulmonary hypertension: A role for M2 macrophage and FGF-2 signalling

Takashi Yoshida, Tetsutaro Nagaoka, Yuichi Nagata, Yoshifumi Suzuki, Takeo Tsutsumi, Sachiko Kuriyama, Junko Watanabe, Shinsaku Togo, Fumiyuki Takahashi, Masakazu Matsushita, Yusuke Joki, HakuohKonishi, Satoshi Nunomura, Kenji Izuhara, Simon J. Conway, Kazuhisa TakahashiJuntendo University Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine. Saga Medical School. Indiana University School of Medicine.Japan and United States RespirologyRespirology 2022; 27:

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Endothelial progenitor cells stimulate neonatal lung angiogenesis through FOXF1-mediated activation of BMP9/ACVRL1 signaling

Guolun Wang, Bingqiang Wen, Zicheng Deng Arun Pradhan, Tanya V. Kalin, Yufang Zhang, Olena A. Kolesnichenko, Vladimir Ustiyan, Vladimir V. KalinichenkoCincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati. United States Nature CommunicationsNat Commun 2022; DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29746-y AbstractPulmonary endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) are critical for neonatal lung angiogenesis and represent a subset of general capillary cells

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Eliminating Senescent Cells Can Promote Pulmonary Hypertension Development and Progression

Emmanuel Born, Larissa Lipskaia, Marielle Breau, Amal Houssaini, Delphine Beaulieu, Elisabeth Marcos, Remi Pierre, Marcio Do Cruzeiro, Marine Lefevre, Genevieve Derumeaux, Dmitry V. Bulavin, Marion Delcroix, Rozenn Quarck, Virinder Reen, Jesus Gil, Daviv Bernard, Jean-Michel Flaman, Serge Adnot, Shariq AbidUniversité Paris-Est Créteil. Université de Lyon. Institut Cochin. Institut Mutualiste Montsouris. nstitute for Research on Cancer

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Right Ventricular Maladaptation to Pressure Overload in Fischer Rats Is Associated With Profound Deficiency in Adenylate Kinase 1 and Impaired Ventricular Energetics

Jason G. E. Zelt, Virgilio Cadete, Yupu Deng, Rafael Godoy, Alexanne Cuillerier, Katelynn Rowe, Mohammad Abdul-Ghani, Lynn Megeney, Yan Burelle, Antonio Giulivi, Alexandre F. R. Stewart, Steeve Provencher, Sandra Breuils-Bonnet, Sébastien Bonnet, Robert deKemp, Rob Beanlands, Lisa M. Mielniczuk, Duncan J. StewartUniversity of Ottawa.Canada HypertensionHypertension 2022; 79: 2774-2786DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.122.19300 AbstractBackground: We explored the mechanism of maladaptive right

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Inhibition of the prolyl isomerase Pin1 improves endothelial function and attenuates vascular remodelling in pulmonary hypertension by inhibiting TGF-β signalling

Kondababu Kurakula, Quint A. J. Hagdorn, Diederik E. van der Feen, Anton Vonk Noordegraaf, Peter ten Dijke, Rudolf A. de Boer, Harm Jan Bogaard, Marie José Goumans, Rolf M. F. BergerLeiden University Medical Center. University of Groningen and Beatrix Children’s Hospital. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. University of Groningen and University Medical Center Groningen.Netherlands AngiogenesisAngiogenesis 2022; 25: 99-112DOI: 10.1007/s10456-021-09812-7 AbstractPulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a devastating disease, characterized by obstructive pulmonary vascular remodelling ultimately leading to right ventricular (RV) failure

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G9a/GLP Targeting Ameliorates Pulmonary Vascular Remodeling in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Charifa Awada, Alice Bourgeois, Sara-Eve Lemay, Yann Grobs, Tetsuro Yokokawa, Sandra Breuils-Bonnet, Sandra Martineau, Vinod Krishna, Francois Potus, Jey Jevaseelan, Steeve ProvencherCentre de recherche de l’Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec. Janssen Research and Development. Canada American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular BiologyAm J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2023; DOI: 10.1165/rcmb.2022-0300OC AbstractPulmonary

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Single-cell RNA sequencing and binary hierarchical clustering define lung interstitial macrophage heterogeneity in response to hypoxia

Nzali V. Campbell, Claudia Mickael, Sushil Kumar, Hui Zhang, Ian L. Campbell, Austin E. Gillen, Caio O. Trentin, Katrina Diener, Bifeng Gao, Vitaly O. Kheyfets, Sue Gu, Rahul Kumar, Tzu Phang, R. Dale Brown, Brian B. Graham, Kurt R. StenmarkUniversity of Colorado. Stanford University. University of California San Francisco.United States American Journal of Physiology Lung

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The role of macrophages in right ventricular remodeling in experimental pulmonary hypertension

Sue Gu, Claudia Mickael, Rahul Kumar, Michael H. Lee, Linda Sanders, Biruk Kassa, Julie Harral, Jason Williams, Kirk C. Hansen, Kurt R. Stenmark, Rubin M. Tuder, Brian B. GrahamUniversity of Colorado. University of California San Francisco.United States Pulmonary CirculationPulm Circ 2022; 12: DOI: 10.1002/pul2.12105 AbstractRight ventricular (RV) failure is the primary cause of death in pulmonary

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Epigenetic attenuation of mitochondrial superoxide dismutase 2 in pulmonary arterial hypertension: a basis for excessive cell proliferation and a new therapeutic target

Stephen L. Archer, Glenn Marsboom, Gene H. Kim, Hannah J. Zang, Peter T. Toth, Eric C. Svensson, Jason R. B. Dyke, Mardi Gomberg-Maitland, Bernard Thébaud, Aliya N. Husain, Nicole Cipriani, Jalees RehmaneUniversity of Chicago. University of Alberta.United States and Canada CirculationCirculation 2010; 121: 2661-2671DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.916098 AbstractBackground: Excessive proliferation and impaired apoptosis of pulmonary artery (PA) smooth muscle

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