Apelin Attenuates Hyperoxic Lung and Heart Injury in Neonatal Rats.
CONCLUSIONS: Apelin reduces pulmonary inflammation, fibrin deposition and right ventricular hypertrophy, and partially restores alveolarization in rat pups with neonatal hyperoxic lung injury via a nitric oxide synthase-dependent mechanism.
PMID: 20622042 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine)
2011 Award Recipients Named By Biophysical Society
The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2011 Society awards. The eight recipients will receive their awards at the Society's 55th Annual Meeting on Monday, March 7, 2011 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland. The awardees are: Shelagh Ferguson-Miller, Michigan State University, will receive the Anatrace Membrane Protein Award for her seminal contributions to the field of molecular bioenergetics and advances in membrane protein biochemistry... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
