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The overwhelming majority of all the endothelial cells in the body are found in the pulmonary microcirculation. However, despite early recognition that many of the most important functions attributable to the pulmonary vasculature occur at the level of the small vessels of the lungs [1, 2], relatively few in vitro studies have used endothelial cells derived from the pulmonary microvasculature. In part this may be due to the relatively greater difficulties encountered in their isolation, identification, and culture.
This work was supported by grants HL 21 568 and HL 33064 from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute.
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Ryan, U.S. (1990). Microvascular Endothelial Cells from the Lungs. In: Piper, H.M. (eds) Cell Culture Techniques in Heart and Vessel Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75262-9_9
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