Hypoxic pulmonary hypertension: The paradigm is changing

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 837-838

  Rowan, S C ^a   McLoughlin, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN PHOSPHATASE; RHO KINASE; CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNEL T TYPE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

ACTIN MYOSIN INTERACTION; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; DISABILITY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXIA; HYPOXIC LUNG VASOCONSTRICTION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG CIRCULATION; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; VASODILATATION; ANIMAL; ANOXIA; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; BIOSYNTHESIS; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PULMONARY ARTERY; VASOCONSTRICTION;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; CALCIUM CHANNELS, L-TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNELS, T-TYPE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 84901489124     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2014.078485     Document Type: Article

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