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Circulating endothelial cells
1 Jan 2005
Abstract excerpt
Recent research has recognised new populations of non-hematopoietic cells in the blood. One of these, circulating endothelial cells (CECs), often defined by the expression of membrane glycoprotein CD146, are rarely found in the blood in health, but raised numbers are present in a wide variety of human conditions, including inflammatory, immune, infectious, neoplastic and cardiovascular disease, and seem likely to...
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