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SUBMITTER: Bhandari V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2768268 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bhandari Vineet V Choo-Wing Rayman R Lee Chun G CG Zhu Zhou Z Nedrelow Jonathan H JH Chupp Geoffrey L GL Zhang Xucher X Matthay Michael A MA Ware Lorraine B LB Homer Robert J RJ Lee Patty J PJ Geick Anke A de Fougerolles Antonin R AR Elias Jack A JA
Nature medicine 20061105 11
The angiogenic growth factor angiopoietin 2 (Ang2) destabilizes blood vessels, enhances vascular leak and induces vascular regression and endothelial cell apoptosis. We considered that Ang2 might be important in hyperoxic acute lung injury (ALI). Here we have characterized the responses in lungs induced by hyperoxia in wild-type and Ang2-/- mice or those given either recombinant Ang2 or short interfering RNA (siRNA) targeted to Ang2. During hyperoxia Ang2 expression is induced in lung epithelial ...[more]