Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction requires connexin 40-mediated endothelial signal conduction

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 122, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 4218-4230

  Wang, Liming ^a,b,c,d   Yin, Jun ^a,b,c,d   Nickles, Hannah T ^b   Ranke, Hannes ^a,b   Tabuchi, Arata ^a   Hoffmann, Julia ^b   Tabeling, Christoph ^b   Barbosa Sicard, Eduardo ^e   Chanson, Marc ^f   Kwak, Brenda R ^g   Shin, Hee Sup ^h   Wu, Songwei ⁱ   Isakson, Brant E ^j   Witzenrath, Martin ^b   De Wit, Cor ^k   Fleming, Ingrid ^e   Kuppe, Hermann ^d   Kuebler, Wolfgang M ^a,b,d,l  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d DEUTSCHES HERZZENTRUM BERLIN   (Germany)

^e GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^h Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^l UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM CHANNEL ALPHA 1G; CONNEXIN 40; CYTOSOLIC PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; EPOXYICOSATRIENOIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HYPOXEMIA; HYPOXIA; HYPOXIC LUNG VASOCONSTRICTION; IN VIVO STUDY; LUNG ENDOTHELIUM; MALE; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN SENSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CONNEXINS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; LUNG; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; PHOSPHOLIPASES A2, CYTOSOLIC; PULMONARY ARTERY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 84868624310     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI59176     Document Type: Article

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