Rasa Tamosiuniene, MD, PhD

Publications

• Neonatal mice genetically modified to express the elastase inhibitor elafin are protected against the adverse effects of mechanical ventilation on lung growth. Hilgendorff A, Parai K, Ertsey R, Juliana Rey-Parra G, Thébaud B, Tamosiuniene R, Jain N, Navarro EF, Starcher BC, Nicolls MR, Rabinovitch M, Bland RD. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2012; 303 (3): L215-27
• Inhibiting lung elastase activity enables lung growth in mechanically ventilated newborn mice. Hilgendorff A, Parai K, Ertsey R, Jain N, Navarro EF, Peterson JL, Tamosiuniene R, Nicolls MR, Starcher BC, Rabinovitch M, Bland RD. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2011; 184 (5): 537-46
• Regulatory T cells and pulmonary hypertension. Tamosiuniene R, Nicolls MR. Trends Cardiovasc Med. 2011; 21 (6): 166-71
• Regulatory T cells limit vascular endothelial injury and prevent pulmonary hypertension. Tamosiuniene R, Tian W, Dhillon G, Wang L, Sung YK, Gera L, Patterson AJ, Agrawal R, Rabinovitch M, Ambler K, Long CS, Voelkel NF, Nicolls MR. Circ Res. 2011; 109 (8): 867-79
• Cyclooxygenase-2-linked attenuation of hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension and intravascular thrombosis. Cathcart MC, Tamosiuniene R, Chen G, Neilan TG, Bradford A, O'Byrne KJ, Fitzgerald DJ, Pidgeon GP. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 2008; 326 (1): 51-8
• Intravascular thrombosis after hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension: regulation by cyclooxygenase-2. Pidgeon GP, Tamosiuniene R, Chen G, Leonard I, Belton O, Bradford A, Fitzgerald DJ. Circulation. 2004; 110 (17): 2701-7