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Morphological and phenotypical characterization of human endothelial progenitor cells in an early stage of differentiation.
FEBS letters - 9 May 2005
Bellik Lydia, Ledda Fabrizio, Parenti Astrid
Abstract excerpt
The exact phenotype and lineage of endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) are still a matter of debate and different expansion protocols are used to obtain them. In this study, EPC expansion from peripheral blood mononuclear cells was analyzed within the first week of culture. Both the adherent and suspended cells, of which the latter usually discarded, were considered. We provide, for the first time, a systematic...
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