Animal Models of Pulmonary Vascular Disease and Therapy

Restoration of pp60Src Re-Establishes Electron Transport Chain Complex I Activity in Pulmonary Hypertensive Endothelial Cells

Manivannan Yegambaram, Marissa D. Pokharel, Xutong Sun, Qing Lu, Jamie Soto, Saurabh Aggarwal, Emin Maltepe, Jeffery R. Fineman, Ting Wang, Stephen M. BlackFlorida International University. University of California San Francisco. United States International Journal of Molecular SciencesInt J Mol Sci 2025; 26: DOI: 10.3390/ijms26083815 AbstractIt is well-established that mitochondrial dysfunction plays a critical role in the […]

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Vascular EC-SOD limits the accumulation, proinflammatory profibrotic reprogramming, and hyaluronan binding of interstitial macrophages in hypoxia

Caitlin V. Lewis, Thi-Tina N. Nguyen, Timothy Porfilio, Samuel D. Burciaga, Janelle N. Posey, Mariah Jordan, Daniel Colon Hidalgo, Kurt R. Stenmark, Claudia Mickael, Christina Sul, Rebecca E. Oberley-Deegan, Cassidy Delaney, Eva S. NozikUniversity of Colorado, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and Children’s Hospital Colorado. University of Nebraska Medical Center.United States American Journal of

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Decreased endothelial micro-RNA-30b-5p impairs angiogenesis in fetal lambs with persistent pulmonary hypertension

Sunil K. Sati, Ujala Rana, Chintamani Joshi, Ru-Jeng Teng, Girija G. KonduriMedical College of Wisconsin.United States Pediatric ResearchPediatr Res 2025; DOI: 10.1038/s41390-025-04098-7 AbstractBackground: Impaired angiogenesis contributes to increased pulmonary vascular resistance in persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN). Notch signaling, critical to lung angiogenesis, is modulated by micro-RNAs (miR). RNA sequencing of pulmonary arterial endothelial cells

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Different Effects of Riociguat and Vericiguat on Pulmonary Vessels and Airways

Katharina Nubbemeyer, Julia Krabbe, Svenja Böll, Anna Michely, Sebastian Kalverkamp, Jan Spillner, Christian MartinRWTH Aachen University. Ruhr University Bochum. Germany BiomedicinesBiomedicines 2025; 13: DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines13040856 AbstractBackground/Objectives: Pulmonary hypertension is a progressive disease leading to right heart failure. One treatment strategy is to induce vasodilation via the nitric oxide-soluble guanylate cyclase-cyclic guanosine monophosphate (NO-sGC-cGMP) signaling pathway. There

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Right Ventricular Stiffening and Function Are Associated With Main Pulmonary Artery Remodeling in a Rat Model of Pulmonary Hypertension

Bahram Mirani, John D. Dauz, Kana Yazaki, Neda Latifi, J. Paul Santerre, Michelle P. Bendeck, Craig A. Simmons, Mark K. FriedbergUniversity of Toronto, Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research and Hospital for Sick Children. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. University of South Florida.Canada and United States Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular BiologyArterioscler,

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MicroRNA-210 Mediates Hypoxic Pulmonary Hypertension in the Newborn Lamb

Xiang-Qun Hu, Rui Song, Chiranjib Dasgupta, Stephen Twum-Barimah, Taiming Liu, Abu Ahmed, Shawn F. Hanson, Lubo Zhang, Arlin B. BloodLoma Linda University School of Medicine.United States HypertensionHypertension 2025; DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.124.23061 AbstractBackground: Pulmonary hypertension of the newborn is a life-threatening disorder characterized by elevated pulmonary vascular resistance due to maladaptation of the pulmonary circulation after birth. The etiology

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Mas1 Receptor Activation is Necessary and Sufficient to Transduce ACE2 Effect in PAH, But Ang(1-7) Alone is Insufficient

James West, Megha Talati, Erica Carrier, Anandharajan Rathinasabapathy, Ibragim Gaidarov, Benjamin Vigl, Ying Cai, Hongpeng Jia, Tom Blackwell, Santhi Gladson, Christie Moore, Sheila Shay, Ethan Sevier, Anna HemnesVanderbilt University Medical Center. Eurofins Beacon Discovery. Alterras Therapeutics. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.United States and Austria Pulmonary CirculationPulm Circ 2025; 15: DOI: 10.1002/pul2.70083 AbstractACE2 has shown effectiveness

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Altered maturation and activation state of circulating monocytes is associated with their enhanced recruitment in pulmonary arterial hypertension

Rebecca L. Harper, Xin Zhou, David P. Marciano, Aiqin Cao, Lingli Wang, Guibin Chen, Mir S. Adil, Wenyu Zhou, Peter Maguire, Shanthi Deivanayagam, Quan Yu, Vignesh Viswanathan, Dan Yang, Marcy Martin, Sarasa Isobe, Shoichiro Otsuki, Jordan Burgess, Audrey Inglis, Devon Kelley, Patricia A. del Rosario, Andrew Hsi, Francois Haddad, Roham T. Zamanian, Manfred Boehm, Michael

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The sonic hedgehog signaling inhibitor cyclopamine improves pulmonary arterial hypertension via regulating the bone morphogenetic protein receptor 2 pathway

Youpeng Jin, Fei Mao, Xuehui Wang, Jie Zhang, Yanting Gao, Youfei FanShandong Provincial Hospital, First Affiliated Hospital and Shandong First Medical University.China Scientific ReportsSci Rep 2025; 15: DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-97627-7 AbstractPulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a severe and progressive disease with hallmarks of pulmonary vascular remodeling and bone morphogenetic protein receptor 2 (BMPR2) mutation. Recent studies indicate

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miR-29 inhibits endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition in pulmonary hypertension of the newborn by regulating LRP6

Yingjie Wang, Le Sun, Xianxian Jia, Miao Yang, Wei XuShengjing Hospital of China Medical University.China FASEB JournalFASEB J 2025; 39:DOI: 10.1096/fj.202401069RRR AbstractPulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PHN) is a common pulmonary vascular disease in newborns, affecting the prognosis of affected infants and even leading to death. Currently, there is still no specific targeted prevention and treatment

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