Article
Cord blood-derived early outgrowth endothelial progenitor cells.
Microvascular research - 1 May 2010
Murohara Toyoaki
Abstract excerpt
The presence of circulating endothelial repopulating cells in the adult human peripheral blood has been proposed since long time ago. In the late 1990s, the putative endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) were first identified and reported by Asahara and co-workers. Since then, a number of studies have demonstrated that these cells are derived from bone marrow and induce microvascular vasculogenesis and...
Topics
- Animals
- Cell Differentiation
- Cord Blood Stem Cell Transplantation
- Endothelial Cells
- Fetal Blood
- Hematopoietic Stem Cells
- Humans
- Ischemia
- Neovascularization, Physiologic
- Phenotype