Publications

Applying Biotechnology and Bioengineering to Pediatric Lung Disease: Emerging Paradigms and Platforms

March 11, 2016

Colvin KL, Yeager ME

Pediatric lung diseases remain a costly worldwide health burden. For many children with end-stage lung disease, lung transplantation remains the only therapeutic option. Due to the limited number of lungs available for transplantation, alternatives to lung transplant are desperately needed. Recently, major improvements in tissue engineering have resulted...

Animal models of pulmonary hypertension: matching disease mechanisms to etiology of the human disease

August 4, 2014

Colvin KL, Yeager ME

Recently a great deal of progress has been made in our understanding of pulmonary hypertension (PH). Research from the past 30 years has resulted in newer treatments that provide symptomatic improvements and delayed disease progression. Unfortunately, the cure for patients with this lethal syndrome remains stubbornly elusive. With the relative explosion o...

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