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MicroRNA networks in pulmonary arterial hypertension
14 Nov 2015
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare disease with poor prognosis and no therapeutics. PAH is characterized by severe remodeling of precapillary pulmonary arteries, leading to increased vascular resistance, pulmonary hypertension compensatory right ventricular hypertrophy, then heart failure and death. PAH pathogenesis shares similarities with carcinogenesis such as excessive cell...
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