Pulmonary circulation: basic science

Poster Discussion
Chairs: N. Weissmann (Giessen, Germany), J. Lordan (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom)
LATE-BREAKING ABSTRACT: TNFalpha mediates ectodomain shedding of BMPR-II: A potential role in pulmonary arterial hypertension
L. Hurst, B. Dunmore, P. Upton, N. Morrell (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
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LATE-BREAKING ABSTRACT: COPD-associated severe pulmonary hypertension (COPDPH): results of a 16-weeks prospective multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial (RCT) [SPHERIC-1 (http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01441934)] investigating the effect of sildenafil citrate (Sld) on pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) and PaO2.
P. Vitulo, M. Sofia, M. Confalonieri, D. Libertucci, T. Oggionni, P. Rottoli, F. Tuzzolino, M. Guardamagna, D. Vizza (Palermo, Naples, Trieste, Turin, Pavia, Siena, Milan, Rome, Italy)
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LATE-BREAKING ABSTRACT: IL6 mediated proliferative responses in human pulmonary vascular cells (PVCs) are differentially modulated by Iron/Heme/Hemoglobin
L. Ramakrishnan, S. Mumby, C. Meng, S. J. Wort, G. Quinlan (London, United Kingdom)
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LATE-BREAKING ABSTRACT: Role of mir23a and PGC-1 alpha in Pulmonary Hypertension.
I. Sarrrión, G. Juan, M. Ramón, J. Cortijo, M. Mata (Valencia, Spain)
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LATE-BREAKING ABSTRACT: A novel and translatable cell assay for the study of vascular signalling in pulmonary hypertension
D. M Reed, P. M George, C. Francis, L. B Feyereisen, W. Swain, M. Iglarz, A. Wan, B. Garfield, J. Wort, J. A Mitchell (London, United Kingdom)
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LATE-BREAKING ABSTRACT: Speckle tracking longitudinal strain imaging to assess right ventricular dyssynchrony in pulmonary hypertension patients
B. Lamia, C. Molano, C. Viacroze, A. Cuvelier, M. Jean Francois (Rouen, France)
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LATE-BREAKING ABSTRACT: Evaluation of Angiopoietin-2 and Thrombomodulin as Biomarkers for Pulmonary Hypertension
S. L. Tiede, I. Randaxhe, T. Schmidt, H. Tiede, F. Grimminger, W. Seeger, H. A. Ghofrani, R. T. Schermuly (Giessen, Germany)
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H3K27 histone lysine methylation as potential therapeutic target in pulmonary arterial hypertension
N. Gambaryan, C. Meng, M. Humbert, I. Adcock, S. Wort (London, United Kingdom; Le Plessis-Robinson, France)
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Roles of circulating and resident myeloid cell subpopulations in bronchopulmonary remodeling and pulmonary hypertension
K. Colvin, K. Stenmark, M. Yeager (Aurora, United States Of America)
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Long intergenic non-coding RNAs are involved in the differentiation of smooth muscle cells
M. M. Musri, V. I. Peinado, J. A. Barberà, G. Meister (Regensburg, Germany; Barcelona, Spain)
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Role of microRNA 17/92 cluster and microRNA 21 in the pathogenesis of pulmonary hypertension – Novel therapeutic targets
S. Pullamsetti, C. Doebele, A. Fischer, R. Savai, B. Kojonazarov, B. Dahal, H. Ghofrani, N. Weissmann, F. Grimminger, A. Bonauer, W. Seeger, A. Zeiher, S. Dimmeler, R. Schermuly (Bad Nauheim, Frankfurt, Giessen, Germany)
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Crosstalk between endothelin-1 and BMPR2 signaling contributes to smooth muscle cell hyperplasia
H. Maruyama, C. Dewachter, A. Belhaj, B. Rondelet, M. Remmelink, J. L. Vachiery, R. Naeije, L. Dewachter (Brussels, Belgium)
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Lung and circulating immune cell repertoires in PAH
F. Perros, D. Montani, B. Girerd, A. Sefarian, P. Dorfmuller, K. S. Isabelle, A. Courtier, O. Filipe-Santos, G. Parmentier, S. Perez, G. Simonneau, M. Humbert, S. Cohen-Kaminsky (Le Plessis Robinson, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, Grenoble, France)
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The transcription factor slug is increased in pulmonary artery endothelial cells of COPD patients
N. Coll, V. Peinado, J. Garcia, B. Lobo, D. Dominguez, J. A. Barbera, M. M. Musri (Barcelona, Spain)
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Role of endothelin B receptor in Th2-induced pulmonary vascular hyperresponsiveness
C. Tabeling, C. R. González Calera, T. Tschernig, M. W. Laschke, B. Hocher, N. Suttorp, M. Witzenrath (Berlin, Homburg/Saar, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany)
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Research on the detection of the gene clusters associated with pulmonary embolism by oligo microarray
K. Cheng, L. Wang, H. Gao, J. Xu (Shanghai, China)
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Regulatory T cells in pulmonary arterial hypertension
A. Huertas, L. Tu, N. Gambaryan, B. Girerd, D. Montani, C. Guignabert, M. Humbert (Le Plessis-Robinson, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France)
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Modulation of respiration by tissue oxygen: A study in the mutant mouse with presbyterian hemoglobinopathy
M. Pokorski, M. Izumizaki (Warsaw, Poland; Shinagawa-ku, Japan)
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