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ArticlePulmonary circulation

Pulmonary vessel casting in a rat model of monocrotaline-mediated pulmonary hypertension.

Zhongkai Zhu, Yifan Wang, Amy Long, Tianyu Feng, Maria Ocampo, Sunny Chen, Haiyang Tang, Qiang Guo, Richard Minshall, Ayako Makino and 2 more

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Article in Pulmonary circulation. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 25% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Zhongkai ZhuDivision of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Yifan WangDivision of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Amy LongDivision of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Tianyu FengKey Laboratory of Medical Diagnostics, Ministry of Education, College of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China.
Maria OcampoDivision of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Sunny ChenDivision of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Haiyang TangCollage of veterinary Medicine, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China.
Qiang GuoDivision of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Soochow, Jiangsu, China.
Richard MinshallDepartment of Anesthesiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Ayako MakinoDepartment of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA The first two authors equally contributed to this manuscript.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1259-8604
Wei HuangDepartment of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China.
Jiwang ChenDivision of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
University of Illinois Chicago · USChongqing Medical University · CNSoochow University · CNState Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease · CNThe Affiliated Yongchuan Hospital of Chongqing Medical University · CNUniversity of California San Diego · US

Funding

Fibroblast Mediated Mechanisms of Pulmonary HypertensionR01HL142636 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI MINSHALL, RICHARD D · 2019 to 2023
$2.0M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL142636
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pulmonary hypertension is a chronic vascular disease characterized by pulmonary vasoconstriction and pulmonary arterial remodeling. Pulmonary arterial remodeling is mainly due to small pulmonary arterial wall thickening and lumen occlusion. Previous studies have described intravascular changes in lung sections using histopathology, but few were able to obtain a fine detailed image of the pulmonary vascular system. In this study, we used Microfil compounds to cast the pulmonary arteries in a rat model of monocrotaline-induced pulmonary hypertension. High-quality images that enabled quantification of distal pulmonary arterial branching based on the number of vessel bifurcations/junctions were demonstrated in this model. The branch and junction counts of distal pulmonary arteries significantly decreased in the monocrotaline group compared to the control group, and this effect was inversely proportional to the mean pulmonary artery pressure observed in each group. The patterns of pulmonary vasculature and the methods for pulmonary vessel casting are presented to provide a basis for future studies of pulmonary arterial remodeling due to pulmonary hypertension and other lung diseases that involve the remodeling of vasculature.

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monocrotalinepulmonary hypertensionpulmonary vessel castingrats

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PMID32922742
PMCPMC7448137
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