Angiopoietin-2: modulator of vascular permeability in acute lung injury?

PLoS Med. 2006 Mar;3(3):e113. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030113. Epub 2006 Feb 7.

Abstract

Hashimoto and Pittet discuss a new study in PLoS Medicine that suggests that angiopoietin-2 may have a key role to play in causing ARDS in patients with sepsis.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Acute Disease
  • Angiopoietin-2 / physiology*
  • Capillary Permeability / drug effects*
  • Humans
  • Inflammation
  • Lung / pathology*
  • Neovascularization, Pathologic
  • Sepsis / complications

Substances

  • Angiopoietin-2