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How the endothelium and its bone marrow-derived progenitors influence development of disease.
Medical hypotheses - 1 Jan 2004
Stefanec Tihomir
Abstract excerpt
The association between diseases accompanied by abnormal endothelial/vascular function (atherosclerosis, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, preeclampsia), and conditions characterized by increased tissue growth and normal endothelial/vascular function (cancer, placental size, birth length, adult height) could be caused by inherited characteristics of endothelial cells and their bone marrow-derived precursors. The...
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