CXCR4 Inhibition Ameliorates Severe Obliterative Pulmonary Hypertension and Accumulation of C-Kit⁺ Cells in Rats

• Daniela Farkas ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Daniela Farkas, Donatas Kraskauskas

  Affiliation Victoria Johnson Center for Obstructive Lung Research, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Respiratory Disease and Critical Care Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Donatas Kraskauskas ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Daniela Farkas, Donatas Kraskauskas

  Affiliation Victoria Johnson Center for Obstructive Lung Research, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Respiratory Disease and Critical Care Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Jennifer I. Drake,

  Affiliation Victoria Johnson Center for Obstructive Lung Research, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Respiratory Disease and Critical Care Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Aysar A. Alhussaini,

  Affiliation Victoria Johnson Center for Obstructive Lung Research, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Respiratory Disease and Critical Care Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Vita Kraskauskiene,

  Affiliation Victoria Johnson Center for Obstructive Lung Research, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Respiratory Disease and Critical Care Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Harm J. Bogaard,

  Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Carlyne D. Cool,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

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• Norbert F. Voelkel,

  Affiliation Victoria Johnson Center for Obstructive Lung Research, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Respiratory Disease and Critical Care Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Laszlo Farkas

  * E-mail: lfarkas@vcu.edu

  Affiliation Victoria Johnson Center for Obstructive Lung Research, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Respiratory Disease and Critical Care Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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