Role of Stress Granules in the Pathogenesis of Pulmonary Hypertension Kosmas Kosmas 1,2, Fotios Spyropoulos1,2,Helen Christou 1,21Department of Pediatric Newborn Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA 2Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Abstract:Background
PAH is a devastating and incurable disease characterized by abnormal pulmonary vascular phenotypes and progressive right ventricular failure, but the underlying mechanisms are incompletely understood. There is an urgent need of new therapeutic approaches, and a better understanding of disease pathogenesis is essential in identifying novel pathways that can be therapeutically targeted. Stress granules (SGs) are small intracellular structures that form in response to stress and contain mRNA molecules … Show more
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