Mild hypoxia causes severe pulmonary hypertension in fawn-hooded but not in Tester Moriyama rats

Respiration Physiology

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 53-60

  Nagaoka, Tetsutaro ^a   Muramatsu, Masashi ^a   Sato, Koichi ^a   McMurtry, Ivan ^b   Oka, Masahiko ^b   Fukuchi, Yoshinosuke ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypoxia, pulmonary hypertension; Mammals, rat, Tester Moriyama vs. fawn hooded; Mediators, serotonin, endothelin 1, NO; Pulmonary circulation, hypertension, hypoxia

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIN 1; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE; PEPTIDE; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMODYNAMICS; HYPOXIA; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG CIRCULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; ENDOTHELIN-1; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; HYPERTROPHY, RIGHT VENTRICULAR; LUNG; MALE; PLATELET STORAGE POOL DEFICIENCY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; SEROTONIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034943184     PISSN: 00345687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-5687(01)00217-1     Document Type: Article

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