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Inflammation, endothelial injury, and persistent pulmonary hypertension in heterozygous BMPR2-mutant mice.
American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology - 1 Aug 2008
Song Yanli, Coleman Laura, Shi Jianru, Beppu Hideyuki, Sato Kaori, Walsh Kenneth, Loscalzo Joseph, Zhang Ying-Yi
Abstract excerpt
Heterozygous bone morphogenetic protein receptor-II-knockout (BMPR2(+/-)) mice have a similar genetic trait like that in some idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension patients. To examine the effect of pulmonary endothelial injury in BMPR2(+/-) mice, we challenged the mice with two injections o...
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