Taormina 4th ERS Lung Science Conference "hypoxia in lung biology and disease"

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Chairs: M. Spiteri (Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom), A. Dinh-Xuan (Paris, France)
Aims: The aims of this hot topic is to present various types of research dealing with different types of hypoxia and hypoxia pathophysiology. Target audience: Researchers, Research fellows, Clinicians.

Hypoxic vasoconstriction of partial muscular intra-acinar pulmonary arteries in the mouse W. Kummer (Giessen, Germany)
Effect of eNOS gene overexpression on the vascular reactivity of isolated pulmonary arteries of chronic hypoxic rats R. Quarck (Leuven , Belgium)
Role of hypoxia inducible factor 1alpha (HIF-1alpha) in delayed myocardial preconditioning induced by intermittent hypoxia (IH) in the rat E. Belaidi (Grenoble, France)