About the Authors
- Sally H. Vitali
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Affiliation Division of Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- S. Alex Mitsialis
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Affiliation Division of Newborn Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Olin D. Liang
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Affiliation Division of Newborn Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Xiaoli Liu
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Affiliation Pulmonary Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Angeles Fernandez-Gonzalez
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Affiliation Division of Newborn Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Helen Christou
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Affiliation Division of Newborn Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Xinqi Wu
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Affiliation Division of Newborn Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Francis X. McGowan
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Affiliation Division of Cardiac Anesthesia, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Stella Kourembanas
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* E-mail: stella.kourembanas@childrens.harvard.edu
Affiliation Division of Newborn Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Performed the experiments: SV. Wrote the paper: SV. PI of laboratory, provided overall scientific direction and funded the research: SK. Edited the manuscript: SK SAM HC. Performed all animal experiments, cardiomyocyte work, proliferation studies: SV. Provided intellectual input, maintained HO-1 null line, engineered hypoxia chamber setup and software control, and taught several animal techniques to Dr. Vitali: SAM. Performed right ventricular pressure measurements for several experiments: ODL XL. Taught Dr. Vitali histological techniques and lung inflation: AFG. Analyzed pulmonary arteriolar remodeling: HC. Performed smooth muscle cell migration experiments: XW. Cardiac anesthesiologist who directed cardiomyocyte experiments: FXM.