Animal Models of Pulmonary Vascular Disease and Therapy

A maternal hypoxia mouse model to study the effect of late gestational hypoxia on offspring lung outcomes

Thi-Tina N. Nguyen, Caitlin V. Lewis, Daniel Colon Hidalgo, Janelle N. Posey, Mariah Jordan, Timothy E. Porfilio, Maya R. Grayck, Clyde J. Wright, Cassidy Delaney, Eva S. NozikUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. United States Frontiers in PhysiologyFront Physiol 2025; 16: DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2025.1513703 AbstractExtremely preterm birth predisposes infants to bronchopulmonary dysplasia and associated pulmonary hypertension (PH). […]

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Sodium nitrite prevents impaired postnatal alveolar development

Kathrine L. Daniel, Chantal Gaudet, Ali Hamraghani, Nadya Ben Fadel, Behzad Yeganeh, Robert P. JankovChildren’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute. University of Ottawa.Canada American Journal of Physiology Lung Cellular and Molecular PhysiologyAm J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2025; DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00324.2024 AbstractDeficient nitric oxide (NO) signaling plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of bronchopulmonary

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Stub1 Acetylation by CBP/p300 Attenuates Chronic Hypoxic-driven Pulmonary Hypertension by Suppressing HIF-2α

Amanda Czerwinski, Paul Sidlowski, Emily Mooers, Yong Liu, Ru-Jeng Teng, Kirkwood Pritchard Jr., Xigang Jing, Suresh Kumar, Amy Y. Pan, Pengyuan Liu, Girija G. Konduri, Adeleye AfolayanMedical College of Wisconsin. University of Arizona College of Medicine. United States American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular BiologyAm J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2025; DOI: 10.1165/rcmb.2024-0353OC AbstractHypoxia-inducible factors

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Placental growth factor modulates endothelial NO production and exacerbates experimental hepatopulmonary syndrome

Fabien Robert, Feriel Benchenouf, My Ngoc Ha, Alessandra Cuomo, Mina Ottaviani, Maxime Surbier, Raphaël Thuillet, Corinne Normand, Florent Dumont, Céline Verstuyft, Frederic Fiore, Frederic Guinut, Marc Humbert, Audrey Coilly, Emmanuel Gonzales, Olivier Sitbon, Ly Tu, Christophe Guignabert, Laurent SavaleUniversité Paris-Saclay. Federico II University. Aix Marseille Université. Hôpital Bicêtre. Hôpital Paul Brousse. France and Italy JHEP

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Mitochondrial fission produces a Warburg effect via the oxidative inhibition of prolyl hydroxylase domain-2

Xutong Sun, Manivannan Yegambaram, Qing Lu, Alejandro E. Garcia Flores, Marissa D. Pokharel, Jamie Soto, Saurabh Aggarwal, Ting Wang, Jeffrey R. Fineman, Stephen M. BlackFlorida International University and Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. University of California, San Francisco. United States Redox BiologyRedox Biol 2025; 81: DOI: 10.1016/j.redox.2025.103529 AbstractExcessive mitochondrial fission and a shift to a Warburg

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Tailored CD4+ lymphocytes expressing human CHAT protein as a novel vasodilator in attenuating RV pressure in PAH animal model

Akash Gupta, Nahla Zaghloul, Senthil Kumar Thulasingam, Ian Richard Robbins, Geetanjali Gupta, Jad Bader, Joe Gn Garcia, Mohamed AhmedUniversity of Arizona. University of Florida. United States Translational ResearchTransl Res 2025; DOI: 10.1016/j.trsl.2025.02.001 AbstractChAT-expressing T cells represent ∼0.01% of total circulating T lymphocytes in adult wild-type mice. However, we previously reported that systemic infusion of ChAT+ve Jurkat

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Estrogen and Cyp1b1 Regulate Pparγ in Pulmonary Hypertension Through a Ubiquitin-Dependent Mechanism

Jingyuan Chen, Xinping Chen, Vineet Agrawal, Christy S. Moore, Tom Blackwell, Nivedita Rathaur, Santhi Gladson, Anandharajan Rathinasabapathy, Anna Hemnes, Eric Austin, James WestVanderbilt University Medical Center. Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University. Wistar Institute.United States and China Pulmonary CirculationPulm Circ 2025; 15: DOI: 10.1002/pul2.70054 AbstractFemale sex increases risk of Group I pulmonary arterial hypertension by

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An intracellular complement system drives metabolic and proinflammatory reprogramming of vascular fibroblasts in pulmonary hypertension

Ram Raj Prasad, Sushil Kumar, Hui Zhang, Min Li, Cheng-Jun Hu, Suzette Riddle, Brittany A. McKeon, M.G. Frid, Konrad Hoetzenecker, Slaven Crnkovic, Grazyna Kwapiszewska, Rubin M. Tuder, Kurt R. StenmarkUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Medical University of Vienna. Medical University of Graz.United States and Austria Journal of Clinical Investigation InsightJCI Insight 2025; DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.184141 AbstractThe

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Chloroquine Restores eNOS Signaling in Shunt Endothelial Cells via Inhibiting eNOS Uncoupling

Ying Liang, Wojciech Ornatowski, Qing Lu, Xutong Sun, Manivannan Yegambaram, Anlin Feng, Yishu Dong, Saurabh Aggarwal, Hoshang J. Unwalla, Jeffrey R. Fineman, Stephen M. Black, Ting WangFlorida International University. University of California, San Francisco.United States International Journal of Molecular SciencesInt J Mol Sci 2025; 26: DOI: 10.3390/ijms26031352 AbstractPulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is characterized by increased lung

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A Cross-Species and Sex-Specific Meta-Analysis of Transcriptomic Studies of Pulmonary Hypertension

Lan Zhao, Christine M. Cunningham, Jason Hong, Stuti Agarwal, Ke Yuan, Vinicio A. de Jesus Perez, Mark R. NicollsStanford University. University of California, Los Angeles. Boston Children’s Hospital.United States American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular BiologyAm J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2025; DOI: 10.1165/rcmb.2024-0410OC AbstractPulmonary hypertension (PH) is a life-threatening disease characterized by pulmonary vascular

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