Class 3. Pulmonary Hypertension Associated with Alveolar Hypoxia

Functional and molecular determinants of right ventricular response to severe pulmonary hypertension in a large animal model

R. Dale Brown, Kendall S. Hunter, Min Li, Maria G. Frid, Julie Harral, Greta M. Krafsur, Timothy N. Holt, Jason Williams, Hui Zhang, Suzette R. Riddle, Michael G. Edwards, Sushil Kumar, Cheng-Jun Hu, Brian B. Graham, Lori A. Walker, Franklyn B. Garry, Peter M. Buttrick, Tim Lahm, Vitaly O. Kheyfets, Kirk C. Hansen, Kurt R. […]

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Vascular Reactions of the Diving Reflex in Men and Women Carrying Different ADRA1A Genotypes

Tatyana Baranova, Ekaterina Podyacheva, Tatyana Zemlyanukhina, Dmitrii Berlov, Maria Danilova, Oleg Glotov, Andrey GlotovSaint Petersburg State University. D.O. Ott’s Institute of Obstetrics. Pediatric Research and Clinical Center for Infectious Diseases.Russia International Journal of Molecular SciencesInt J Mol Sci 2022; 23: DOI: 10.3390/ijms23169433 AbstractThe diving reflex is an oxygen-saving mechanism which is accompanied by apnea, reflex bradycardia

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Identification of the Key Pathways and Genes in Hypoxia Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Following Intrauterine Growth Retardation

Weifen Zhu, Ziming Zhang, Weiwei Gui, Zheng Shen, Yixin Chen, Xueyao Yin, Li Liang, Lin LiThe Affiliated Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Children’s Hospital and The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University.China Frontiers in Molecular BiosciencesFront Mol Biosci 2022; DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2022.789736 AbstractHigh-throughput sequencing and weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA) were used to identify susceptibility modules

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Cardiac involvement in two rare neuromuscular diseases: LAMA2-related muscular dystrophy and SELENON-related myopathy

Karlijn Bouman, Madelief Gubbels, Frederik M. A. van den Heuvel, Jan T. Groothuis, Corrie E. Erasmus, Robin Nijveldt, Floris E. A. Udink ten Cate, Nicol C. VoermansRadboud University Medical Center and Amalia Children’s Hospital. Netherlands Neuromuscular DisordersNeuromuscul Disord 2022; 32: 635-642DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2022.06.004 AbstractLAMA2-related muscular dystrophy (LAMA2-MD) and SELENON(SEPN1)-related myopathy (SELENON-RM) are rare neuromuscular diseases caused by

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Heterozygous Tropomodulin 3 mice have improved lung vascularization after chronic hypoxia

Tsering Stobdan, Pritesh P. Jain, Mingmei Xiong, Vineet Bafna, Jason X.-J. Yuan, Gabriel G. HaddadUniversity of California San Diego. Rady Children’s Hospital.United States Human Molecular GeneticsHum Mol Genet 2022; 31: 1130-1140DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddab291 AbstractThe molecular mechanisms leading to high-altitude pulmonary hypertension (HAPH) remains poorly understood. We previously analyzed the whole genome sequence of Kyrgyz highland population and

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Dichotomous role of integrin-β5 in lung endothelial cells

Neil Blanchard, Patrick A. Link, Daniela Farkas, Brennan Harmon, Jaylen Hudson, Srimathi Bogamuwa, Bryce Piper, Kayla Authelet, Carlyne D. Cool, Rebecca L. Heise, Robert Freishtat, Laszlo FarkasUniversity of Virginia. Ohio State University. Children’s National Health System. University of Colorado. Virginia Commonwealth University.United States Pulmonary CirculationPulm Circ 2022; DOI: 10.1002/pul2.12156 AbstractPulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a progressive,

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A Study on the Molecular Mechanism of High Altitude Heart Disease in Children

Qu-Zhen Tashi, Sang-Bu Tsering, Na-Ni Zhou, Yi Zhang, Yu-Juan Huang, Jia Jia, Ting-Jun LiShigatse Peopel’s Hospital. Fujungenetics Technologies Inc. Children’s Hospital of Shanghai.China Pharmacogenomics and Personalized MedicinePharmgenomica Pers Med 2022; 15: 721-731DOI: 10.2147/PGPM.S356206 AbstractObjective: High altitude heart disease (HAHD) is a common pediatric disease in high altitude areas. It usually occurs in people who have lived for

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Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Reveals Novel Genes Regulated by Hypoxia in the Lung Vasculature

Shelby Thomas, Sathiyanarayanan Manivannan, Vidu Garg, Brenda LillyNationwide Children’s Hospital and Ohio State University.United States Journal of Vascular ResearchJ Vasc Res 2022; 59: 163-175DOI: 10.1159/000522340 AbstractPulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a chronic progressive disease with significant morbidity and mortality. The disease is characterized by vascular remodeling that includes increased muscularization of distal blood vessels and vessel

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Hypoxic pulmonary endothelial cells release epidermal growth factor leading to vascular smooth muscle cell arginase-2 expression and proliferation

Bernadette Chen, Yi Jin, Caitlyn M. Pool, Yusen Liu, Leif D. NelinNationwide Children’s Hospital and Ohio State University.United States Physiological ReportsPhysiol Rep 2022; DOI: 10.14814/phy2.15342 AbstractThe hallmark of pulmonary hypertension (PH) is vascular remodeling. We have previously shown that human pulmonary microvascular endothelial cells (hPMVEC) respond to hypoxia with epidermal growth factor (EGF) mediated activation of the receptor tyrosine kinase, EGF

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Neonatal intermittent hypoxia persistently impairs lung vascular development and induces long-term lung mitochondrial DNA damage

Andreas Damianos, Shathiyah Kulandavela, Pingping Chen, Patrick Nwajei, Sunil Batlahally, Mayank Sharma, Silvia Alvarez-Cubela, Juan Dominguez-Bendala, Ronald Zambrano, Jian Huang, Joshua M. Hare, Augusto Schmidt, Merline Benny, Nelson Claure, Karen YoungUniversity of Miami Miller School of Medicine.United States Journal of Applied PhysiologyJ Appl Physiol 2022; 133: 1031-1041DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00708.2021 AbstractAdults born preterm have an increased risk of

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