LGALS1 and acute myocardial infarction: Further, Galectin-1 (Gal-1) is exemplarily expressed in cardiomyocytes, ECs, VSMCs, activated macrophages and activated T-cells (Fuertes et al., 2004; Cerliani et al., 2011) and appears upregulated in acute myocardial infarction (Al-Salam and Hashmi, 2014) and in chronic hypoxia model of PH (Case et al., 2007).