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Potential of baboon endothelial progenitor cells for tissue engineered vascular grafts.
Journal of biomedical materials research. Part A - 1 Sept 2008
Hinds Monica T, Ma MinHui, Tran Noi, Ensley Ann E, Kladakis Stephanie M, Vartanian Keri B, Markway Brandon D, Nerem Robert M, Hanson Stephen R
Abstract excerpt
Thrombosis and intimal hyperplasia limit the usefulness of small caliber vascular grafts. While some improvements have been reported for grafts seeded with mature endothelial cells (EC), the harvesting of ECs from autologous sources, for example, veins or adipose tissue, remains problematic. More recently, endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) have been considered a promising source of ECs because EPCs can be...
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