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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2022
Filed:
May. 11, 2018
Marshall University Research Corporation, Huntington, WV (US);
Zijian Xie, Saline, MI (US);
Jiayan Wang, Huntington, WV (US);
Sandrine V. Pierre, Huntington, WV (US);
Joseph I. Shapiro, Huntington, WV (US);
MARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION, Huntington, WV (US);
Abstract
Methods treating pulmonary hypertension, including pulmonary arterial hypertension, are provided, and include administering a polypeptide antagonist of a Na/K ATPase/Src receptor complex to a subject in need thereof. Administration of the polypeptide antagonist reduces pulmonary artery acceleration time, reduces an amount of right ventricular hypertrophy, reduces right ventricular wall thickness, reduces an amount of pulmonary vessel wall thickness, reduces an amount of plexiform lesions in a lung of the subject, reduces an amount of collagen deposition in a pulmonary blood vessel, reduces an amount of collagen deposition in a pulmonary blood vessel media or adventitia, and/or reduces an amount of right ventricular fibrosis. Methods of reducing pulmonary vessel wall thickness are also provided and include the administration of the polypeptide antagonist of a Na/K ATPase/Src receptor complex.