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Review article| Volume 132, ISSUE 1, P16-24, July 1998

Pulmonary hypertension and inflammation

  • Rubin M. Tuder
    Correspondence
    Reprint requests: Rubin M. Tuder, MD, Associate Professor of Pathology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 4200 East Ninth Ave., Denver, CO 80262.
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    Pulmonary Hypertension Center and the Department of Medicine, Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, and the Department of Pathology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado, USA
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  • Norbert F. Voelkel
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    Pulmonary Hypertension Center and the Department of Medicine, Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, and the Department of Pathology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado, USA
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      Abbreviations:

      ACE (angiotensin-converting enzyme), All (angiotensin II), CREST (calcinosis Raynaud's phenomenon esophageal involvement sclerodactyly telangiectasia), ET-1 (endothelin-1), 5-LO (5-lipoxygenase), FGF (fibroblast growth factor), FLAP (5-LO activating protein), IGF-1 (insulin-like growth factor), IL-1 (interleukin-1), MCT (monocrotaline), PAF (platelet-activating factor), PDGF (platelet-derived growth factor), PPH (primary pulmonary hypertension), TF (tissue factor TGF-β transforming growth factor-β), VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor), VSMC (vascular smooth muscle cell)
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