Primary pulmonary hypertension is associated with reduced pulmonary vascular expression of type II bone morphogenetic protein receptor

Circulation

Volumn 105, Issue 14, 2002, Pages 1672-1678

  Atkinson, Carl ^a   Stewart, Susan ^a   Upton, Paul D ^a   Machado, Rajiv ^a   Thomson, Jennifer R ^a   Trembath, Richard C ^a   Morrell, Nicholas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hypertension, pulmonary; Immunohistochemistry; Receptors

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTOR; CD31 ANTIGEN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTERY MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HEART LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION;

ACTIVIN RECEPTORS, TYPE I; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTORS, TYPE II; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; RECEPTORS, TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0037046175     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000012754.72951.3D     Document Type: Article

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