Research

Dr. Gladwin’s clinical research and expertise focuses on pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary complications of sickle cell disease. Since 1998, Dr. Gladwin’s research has led to four scientific discoveries: 1) the nitrite anion is a circulating storage pool for NO bioactivity that regulates hypoxic vasodilation and the cellular resilience to low oxygen and ischemia; 2) a novel physiological function for hemoglobin as an electronically- and allosterically-regulated nitrite reductase; 3) the characterization of a novel mechanism of disease, hemolysis-associated endothelial dysfunction; and 4) the mechanistic, clinical, and epidemiological description of a human disease syndrome, hemolysis-associated pulmonary hypertension.

See also: Tejero Lab; Globin Solutions

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