Date of Graduation
5-2016
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Science
Degree Level
Undergraduate
Department
Biological Sciences
Advisor/Mentor
Nan Smith-Blair
Committee Member/Reader
Mack Ivey
Committee Member/Second Reader
T.K.S. Kumar
Committee Member/Third Reader
Timothy Kral
Abstract
Pulmonary hypertension is a life-threatening disease that is identified by a resting mean pulmonary arterial pressure over 25 mmHg and established by right heart catheterization (Saglam et al., 2015). The symptoms commonly associated with pulmonary hypertension include fatigue, dyspnea, syncope, and chest pain, which severely limit quality of life in diagnosed patients (Saglam et al., 2015). According to recent studies in patients with pulmonary hypertension, the one, three and five year mortality rates are 8%, 25%, and 34%, respectively (Burudpakdee, Shah, Joish, Divers, & Yaldo, 2014). Although some advances have been made in therapies for pulmonary hypertension, the prognosis is still poor, and there is a lack of understanding of its mechanisms (Voelkel, Gomez-Arroyo, Abbate, Bogaard, & Nicolls, 2012). This study aims to examine and understand some of those mechanisms in the Zucker Rat.
Keywords
Pulmonary Hypertension, Zucker Rats, Vascular Contraction
Citation
Franzetti, M. (2016). The Effects of Pulmonary Hypertension in Diabetic Zucker Rats on Pulmonary Vascular Contraction and Right Ventricular Size. Biological Sciences Undergraduate Honors Theses Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/biscuht/26
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