Decreased bone morphogenetic protein type II receptor and BMP-related signalling molecules’ expression in aquaporin 1-silenced human pulmonary microvascular endothelial cells

• Alice G. Vassiliou,
• Chrysi Keskinidou,
• Anastasia Kotanidou,
• Frantzeska Frantzeskaki,
• Ioanna Dimopoulou,
• David Langleben,
• Stylianos E. Orfanos

Affiliations

Alice G. Vassiliou

First Department of Critical Care Medicine & Pulmonary Services, GP Livanos and M Simou Laboratories, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece

Chrysi Keskinidou

First Department of Critical Care Medicine & Pulmonary Services, GP Livanos and M Simou Laboratories, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece; Medical School of Democritus University of Thrace, 6th km Alexandroupolis-Dragana, Greece

Anastasia Kotanidou

First Department of Critical Care Medicine & Pulmonary Services, GP Livanos and M Simou Laboratories, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece; First Department of Critical Care Medicine & Pulmonary Services, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece

Frantzeska Frantzeskaki

Second Department of Critical Care, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, “Attikon” Hospital, Athens, Greece

Ioanna Dimopoulou

First Department of Critical Care Medicine & Pulmonary Services, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece

David Langleben

Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease, Division of Cardiology, Azrieli Heart Center, and Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Stylianos E. Orfanos

Corresponding author. Stylianos E. Orfanos, 2nd Department of Critical Care, Attikon University Hospital, 1 Rimini St, 12462, Haidari Athens, Greece. Tel: (+30) 210 5832177; Fax: (+30) 210 7239127.; First Department of Critical Care Medicine & Pulmonary Services, GP Livanos and M Simou Laboratories, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece; First Department of Critical Care Medicine & Pulmonary Services, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece; Second Department of Critical Care, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, “Attikon” Hospital, Athens, Greece