Assessment of a pulmonary origin for blood outgrowth endothelial cells by examination of identical twins harboring a BMPR2 mutation

Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2013 Jul 15;188(2):258-60. doi: 10.1164/rccm.201301-0078LE.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Twin Study

MeSH terms

  • Bone Marrow Cells / physiology
  • Bone Morphogenetic Protein Receptors, Type II / genetics*
  • Diseases in Twins*
  • Endothelial Cells / physiology*
  • Endothelium, Vascular / cytology*
  • Familial Primary Pulmonary Hypertension
  • Heart-Lung Transplantation
  • Humans
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary / surgery
  • Lung / cytology
  • Lung / physiology*
  • Microsatellite Repeats
  • Mutation
  • Neovascularization, Physiologic
  • Stem Cells / physiology
  • Twins, Monozygotic / genetics*

Substances

  • BMPR2 protein, human
  • Bone Morphogenetic Protein Receptors, Type II