Mechanical stretching of pulmonary vein stimulates matrix metalloproteinase-9 and transforming growth factor-β1 through stretch-activated channel/MAPK pathways in pulmonary hypertension due to left heart disease model rats

• Hui Zhang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zhanghui9877656@163.com

  Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Union Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, P.R. China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2203-7982

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• Wenhui Huang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Union Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, P.R. China

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• Hongjin Liu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Union Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, P.R. China

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• Yihan Zheng,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Software

  Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Union Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, P.R. China

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• Lianming Liao

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory, Union Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, P.R. China

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