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Isolation and characterization of endothelial progenitor cells from human blood.
Current protocols in stem cell biology - 1 Jul 2008
Mead Laura E, Prater Daniel, Yoder Mervin C, Ingram David A
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Circulating endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) in adult human peripheral blood were originally identified in 1997 by Asahara et al., which challenged the paradigm that vasculogenesis is a process restricted to embryonic development. Since their original identification, EPCs have been extensively studied as biomarkers to assess the risk of cardiovascular disease in human subjects and as a potential cell...
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