Thymosin Beta 4 Protects Mice from Monocrotaline-Induced Pulmonary Hypertension and Right Ventricular Hypertrophy

Chuanyu Wei; Il-Kwon Kim; Li Li; Liling Wu; Sudhiranjan Gupta

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0110598

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Thymosin Beta 4 Protects Mice from Monocrotaline-Induced Pulmonary Hypertension and Right Ventricular Hypertrophy

Chuanyu Wei ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Chuanyu Wei, Il-Kwon Kim, Li Li

Affiliation Division of Molecular Cardiology, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Texas A & M Health Science Center and Scott & White, Central Texas Veterans Health Care System, Temple, Texas, United States of America
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Il-Kwon Kim ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Chuanyu Wei, Il-Kwon Kim, Li Li

Current address: Yonsei Cardiovascular Research institute, 134 Shinchon-Dong, Seodaemun-Ku, Seoul, South Korea

Affiliation Division of Molecular Cardiology, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Texas A & M Health Science Center and Scott & White, Central Texas Veterans Health Care System, Temple, Texas, United States of America
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Li Li ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Chuanyu Wei, Il-Kwon Kim, Li Li

Affiliations Division of Molecular Cardiology, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Texas A & M Health Science Center and Scott & White, Central Texas Veterans Health Care System, Temple, Texas, United States of America, Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China
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Liling Wu,

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China
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Sudhiranjan Gupta

* E-mail: sgupta@medicine.tamhsc.edu

Affiliation Division of Molecular Cardiology, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Texas A & M Health Science Center and Scott & White, Central Texas Veterans Health Care System, Temple, Texas, United States of America
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Thymosin Beta 4 Protects Mice from Monocrotaline-Induced Pulmonary Hypertension and Right Ventricular Hypertrophy

Chuanyu Wei,
Il-Kwon Kim,
Li Li,
Liling Wu,
Sudhiranjan Gupta

Published: November 20, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0110598

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