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Chronic allergic inflammation causes vascular remodeling and pulmonary hypertension in BMPR2 hypomorph and wild-type mice.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Mushaben Elizabeth M, Hershey Gurjit Khurana, Pauciulo Michael W, Nichols William C, Le Cras Timothy D
Abstract excerpt
Loss-of-function mutations in the bone morphogenetic protein receptor type 2 (BMPR2) gene have been identified in patients with heritable pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH); however, disease penetrance is low, suggesting additional factors play a role. Inflammation is associated with PAH and vascular remodeling, but whether allergic inflammation triggers vascular remodeling in individuals with BMPR2 mutations...
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