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Dysfunctional intracellular trafficking in the pathobiology of pulmonary arterial hypertension.
American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology - 1 Jul 2007
Sehgal Pravin B, Mukhopadhyay Somshuvra
Abstract excerpt
Discussions of the initiation of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in man and in experimental models have centered around intimal and medial proliferation in medium-sized pulmonary arteries. The histologic events are thought to include disordered proliferation of enlarged, vacuolated endothelial cells, neo-muscularization of the affected blood vessels, and vascular pruning. The discovery of the association of...
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