Vascular Cell Biology and Mechanisms of Pulmonary Vascular Disease

Frataxin deficiency disrupts mitochondrial respiration and pulmonary endothelial cell function

Miranda K. Culley, Rashmi J. Rao, Monica Mehta, Jingsi Zhao, Wadih El Khoury, Lloyd D. Harvey, Dror Perk, Yi Yin Tai, Ying Tang, Sruti Shiva, Marlene Rabinovitch, Mingxia Gu, Thomas Bertero, Stephen Y. ChanUniversity of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Stanford Children’s Health and Stanford […]

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Histone deacetylase inhibitors synergize with sildenafil to suppress purine metabolism and proliferation in pulmonary hypertension

Hui Zhang, Angelo D’Alessandro, Min Li, Julie A. Reisz, Suzette Riddle, Akshay Muralidhar, Todd Bull, Lan Zhao, Evgenia Gerasimovskaya, Kurt R. StenmarkUniversity of Colorado School of Medicine.  Imperial College London. United States and United Kingdom Vascular PharmacologyVasc Pharmacol 2023; 149: DOI: 10.1016/j.vph.2023.107157 AbstractRationale: Sildenafil, a well-known vasodilator known to interfere with purinergic signaling through effects on cGMP,

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Hippo signaling pathway and respiratory diseases

Weifeng Tang, Min Li, Xiaoting Yangzhong, Xifeng Zhang, Anju Zu, Yunjiao Hou, Lin Li, Shibo SunFirst Affiliated Hospital and Kunming Medical University. China Cell Death DiscoveryCell Death Discov 2022; 8: DOI: 10.1038/s41420-022-01020-6 AbstractThe hippo signaling pathway is a highly conserved evolutionary signaling pathway that plays an important role in regulating cell proliferation, organ size, tissue development,

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Common Variation in EDN1 Regulatory Regions Highlights the Role of PPARγ as a Key Regulator of Endothelin in vitro

Mauro Lago-Docampo, Carlos Solarat, Luis Méndez-Martínez, Adolfo Baloira, Diana ValverdeUniversidade de Vigo. Galicia Sur Health Research Institute . Institute of Marine Research. Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Pontevedra.Spain Frontiers in Cardiovascular MedicineFront Cardiovasc Med 2022; 9: DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.823133 AbstractPulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) is a rare disease caused by the obliteration of the pulmonary arterioles, increasing pulmonary vascular resistance

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A Protocol for Fabrication and on-Chip Cell Culture to Recreate PAH-Afflicted Pulmonary Artery on a Microfluidic Device

Tanoy Sarkar, Trieu Nguyen, Sakib M. Moinuddin, Kurt R. Stenmark, Dipongkor Saha, Fakhrul AhsanCalifornia Northstate University College of Pharmacy. University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus. MedLuidics.United States MicromachinesMicromachines 2022; 13: DOI: 10.3390/mi13091483 AbstractPulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare pulmonary vascular disease that affects people of all ethnic origins and age groups including newborns. In

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Single-cell transcriptomics reveals skewed cellular communication and phenotypic shift in pulmonary artery remodeling

Slaven Crnkovic, Francesco Valzano, Elisabeth Fließer, Jürgen Gindlhuber, Helene Thekkekara Puthenparampil, Maria Basil, Mike P. Morley, Jeremy Katzen, Elisabeth Gschwandtner, Walter Klepetko, Edward Cantu, Heimo Wolinski, Horst Olschewski, Jörg Lindenmann, You-Yang Zhao, Edward E. Morrisey, Leigh M. Marsh, Grazyna KwapiszewskaLudwig Boltzmann Institute for Lung Vascular Research. Medical University of Graz. University of Pennsylvania. Medical University

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Expression of the microRNA-30 family in pulmonary arterial hypertension and the role of microRNA-30d-5p in the regulation of pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cell toxicity and apoptosis

Fan Hu, Hanmin Liu, Chuan Wang, Hanwen Li, Lina QiaoWest China Second University Hospital, Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Diseases of Women and Children, and West China Hospital of Stomatology. Sichuan University. China Experimental and Therapeutic MedicineExp Ther Med 2022; 23: DOI: 10.3892/etm.2021.11031 AbstractThe biological processes of pulmonary artery vascular smooth muscle cells (PA-SMCs)

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Ataxia telangiectasia mutated: The potential negative regulator in platelet-derived growth factor-BB promoted proliferation of pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cells

Chaoyi Qin, Yiheng Zan, LiangXie, Hanmin LiuWest China Hospital and Sichuan University. China Institute of Women’s and Children’s Health, West China Second University Hospital and Sichuan University. China Frontiers in Cardiovascular MedicineFront Cardiovasc Med 2022; DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.942251 AbstractObjective: To study the role of ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) in the platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF)-BB-induced proliferation of pulmonary arterial

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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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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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