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A protocol for phenotypic detection and enumeration of circulating endothelial cells and circulating progenitor cells in human blood.
Nature protocols - 1 Jan 2007
Duda Dan G, Cohen Kenneth S, Scadden David T, Jain Rakesh K
Abstract excerpt
Blood circulating endothelial cells (CECs) and circulating hematopoietic progenitor cells (CPCs) represent two cell populations that are thought to play important roles in tissue vascularization. CECs and CPCs are currently studied as surrogate markers in patients for more than a dozen pathologies, including heart disease and cancer. However, data interpretation has often been difficult because of multiple...
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