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BMPR2 mutation alters the lung macrophage endothelin-1 cascade in a mouse model and patients with heritable pulmonary artery hypertension.
American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology - 1 Sept 2010
Talati M, West J, Blackwell T R, Loyd J E, Meyrick B
Abstract excerpt
Macrophage derived-endothelin-1 (ET-1) has been suggested to contribute to a number of chronic lung diseases. Whether the ET-1 cascade from non-vascular sources (inflammatory cells) also contributes to pulmonary artery hypertension (PAH) and in particular to heritable PAH (HPAH) with known bone morphogenetic protein type 2 receptor (BMPR2) mutations is not known. We tested this notion using bone marrow-derived...
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